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Today’s preeminent rap poet interviews
his Straight Outta Compton predecessors
as they taik race, the state of hip-hop
and the group’s ‘dangerous’ iegacy:
‘N.W.A were my superheroes’

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The Weeknd’s
Best Week Ever:
‘Face’ Hits No. 1

Can’t Feel My Face A TheWeeknd

A.PAYAMI,MAX MARTIN fA.TESFAYEJMAX MARTIN,
S.KOTECHA,P.SVENSSONtA.PAYAM(] XO/REPUBLIC

The Canadian R&B
heartthrob scores
his first chart-topper
on the Hot 100.

Artist

My Way

NICK E BEATS [W.J.MAXWELL.A.COSME JR.,D.EAGLES]

Petty Wap Feat. Monty

RGF/300

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PRODUCER [SONGWRITER]

Cheerleader A OMI

C.DILLON,O.PASLEY[O.PASLEY,C.DILLON,M.BRADFORD,S.DUNBAR,R.DILLON] LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

Watch Me*

BOLO DA PRODUCER [T.B.MINGO.R.L.HAWK]

Silento

BOLO/CAPITOL

Drag Me Down

J.BUNETTA,J.RYAN[J.SCOTT,J.RYAN,J.BUNETTA]

One Direction

SYCO/COLUMBIA

Bad Blood A Taylor Swift Feat. Kendrick Lamar

MAX MARTIN, SHELLBACK [T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,K.DUCKWORTH) BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

7 j Fight Song A

J.LEVINE [R.PLATTEN,D.BASSEn]

Rachel Flatten

COLUMBIA

See You Again A Wiz Khalifa Feat. Charlie Puth

DJ FRANK E,C.PUTH,A.CEDAR [J.FRANKS,A.CEDAR,C.J.THOMAZ,C.PUTH] UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/RRP

Trap Queen A

T.EADD [W.J.MAXWELL,T.EADD]

Petty Wap

RGE/300

I N JUST THREE YEARS, THE WEEKND HAS GONE EROM
mysterious mixtape favorite to pop’s current king. The singer
scores his first No. i on the Billboard Hot lOO with “Can’t
Feel My Face” (2-1), co-written and co-produced by studio
wiz Max Martin (see page 52).

“It’s hard to imagine that we’ve come this far,” says The Weeknd
(born Abel Tesfaye), 25. “Face” previews his second studio
album, Beauty Behind the Madness (Aug. 28), touting collaborations
with Lana Del Rey and Ed Sheeran. “I’m excited for the world to
hear the full body of work and experience the vision.”

“Face” wins a tight race to the Hot loo’s summit over both
OMI’s “Cheerleader,” which drops to No. 2 after four weeks at the
top, and One Direction’s “Drag Me Down,” which arrives at No. 3
as the highest debut of 2015, scoring the boy band its best sales
week (see page 52). “Face” also takes over at No. 1 on the Radio
Songs chart (2-1) with 152 million audience impressions, according
to Nielsen Music, and passes 1 million downloads sold to date
(1.1 million). The Weeknd is expected to perform “Face” when he
headlines the inaugural Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival, with
Justin Bleber and Skrillex, Aug. 22 and 23 at the Nikon at Jones
Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y. -gary trust

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Billboard Hot 100

SILENTO

Watch Me

The 17-year-old,
who recently signed
to Capitol Records,
plans to release an EP
in the near future.

“Watch Me” was originally recorded as a
15-second Instagram video. Did you think
it would get this big after you recorded a
full version of the song?

Yeah, I knew that it was a banger because
everybody already liked it. In the video, which
I recorded on my phone, somebody was
beating on the desk at school. I took that
same beat to [producer] Bolo and he went
off of that and made a different beat. Once
the audience gives you feedback, that's how
you know.

The track refers to two popular dances,
the Whip and the Nae Nae. Are you an

experienced dancer?

No, I never took dance classes. I want to;
there's still some stuff I need to learn. But it's
easy creating your own stuff because you
can find out what everybody likes and then
just put it together.

You’re about to start your senior year in
high school. Have your classmates been
treating you differently?

I know all the girls are going to be my fans.

I want to goto college for business. I've got
to find out what's going to be the best place
for me. But I'm going to go to class and I ain't
going to be late. -john Kennedy

SKRILLEX

® &DIPLO WITH
JUSTIN BIEBER

Where Are U
Now

The track climbs 12-lOon
Radio Songs (76 million in
audience, up 5 percent),
making it Bieber's third top 10
after "As Long as You Love Me"
(No. 2, 2012) and "Beauty and a
Beat" (No. 4,2013).

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SKRILLEX, DIPLO [S.MOORE,T.W.PENTZ,J.BIEBER) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC

Good For You Selena Gomez Feat. a$ap Rocky

N. M0NS0N,SIR NaAN,A$AP ROCKY, H.DELGADO (J.MICHAELS,J.TRANTER,R.MAYERS) INTERSCOPE

ShutUpAndDanceA WALKTHEMOON

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Worth It A Fifth Harmony Feat. Kid mk

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Uptown Funk! A Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars

M.RONSON,I.BHASKER, BRUNO MARS [M.D.RONSONJ.BHASKER, BRUNO MARS,P.M.LAWRENCE II,
L.SIMMONS,R.WILSON,C.WILSON,R.TAYLORR.WILSOkD.C.GALLASPY,N.).WILLIAMS) RCA

679 Fetty Wap Feat. Remy Boyz

PEOPLES [W.J.MAXWELL,A.COSME JR.,J.POPE,B.GARCIA] RGF/300

Honey, I’m Good. A Andy Grammer

B.WEST,N.W.SIPE,S.GREENBERG,M.DALY[A.GRAMMER,N.W.SIPE] S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD

Photograph • Ed Sheeran

J.BHASKER [E.C.SHEERAN,J.MCDAID] ATLANTIC

Cool For The Summer Demi Lovato

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Back To Back Drake

DAXZNSHEBIELDRAKE

[AgMeHAMJ.CARTER,NJSHEBIB) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBUC

Hoy Mama A David Guatta Feat. Nlckl Mlnaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack

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Post To Be A Omarion Feat. Chrls Brown Si Jhene Aiko
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Classic Man Jidenna Feat. Roman cianArthur

Want To Want Me A Jason Derulo

I.IORKPATRICK(].DESROULEAUXS.MARIIN,L.ROBBINS,llORKPATRia,W^^ BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Uma Thurman A Fall Out Boy

J.SINaAIR,YOUNG WOLF HATCHLINGSJFALL OUT BOYWWASHMI,
J.YOUNG,L.O'DONNELL,J.SINCLAIRJ.MARSHALL,R.MOSHERj D02/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

Sugar Maroon 5

AMM0,CIRKUT(A.LEVINE,].C0LEMAN,LG0T1WALDJ.KHINDLIN,M.P0SNER,H.RWALTER] 222/INTERSCOPE

Marvin Gaye Charlie Puth Feat. Meghan Tralnor

CPUTH [C.PUTH,J.FR0STJ. LUTTRELL,N.SEELY) ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC

Flex (Ooh Ooh Ooh) Rich Homie Quan

NITTI,DJSPINZ[D.D.LAMAR,C.M00RE,G.HILL) RICHHOMIEZ/THINKIT’SAGAME

Thinking Out Loud A Ed Sheeran

J.GOSLING [E.C.SHEERAN,A.WADGE] ATLANTIC

House Party Sam Hunt

Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.FLOWERS] MCA NASHVILLE

Earnedlt[FiftyShadesOfGrey)A TheWeeknd

S.MOCCI0,10UENNEVILLE(A.TESFAYE,S.M0CCI0JOUENNEVILLE,A.BALSHE) UNIVERSALSTUDDS/REPUBLIC

B**** Better Have My Money A Rihanna

DEPUTY,KWESr(J.PIERRE,B.BOURELLY,R.FENrY,J.WEBSrER,KOWESI) WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION

She’s Kinda Hot 5 Seconds Of Summer

J.FELDMANN [I.FELDMANN,B.MADDENJ.MADDEN,M.CLIFFORDA.IRWIN] HI ORHEY/CAPITOL

Locked Away R. City Feat. Adam Levine

HH DR LUKE,CIRKUT (T.TH0MAS,T.TH0MAS,L.G0TTWALD,H.R.WALTER,T.TENNILLE] KEMOSABE/RCA

Love Me Like You Do A Ellie Goulding

MAXMARTIN,APAYAMI [MAXMARTIN,S.KOTECHA,

I.SA[MANZADEH,A.PAYAWI,TOVELO) UNIVERSALSTUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE

Kick The Dust Up Luke Bryan

J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS [D.DAVIDSON,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE

RottenToTheCoie D()veCai!ieroi\CameionBoyce,Boob()oStewart&SofiaC^

S.PEIKEN,J.ALKENAS [J.PERSSON,S.PEIKEN,J.ALKENAS] WALT DISNEY

Talking Body A Tove Lo

THE STRUTS,SHELLBACK (TOVE LO,J.JERLSTROM,L.SODERBERG] ISLAND/REPUBLIC

You Know You Like It DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge

DJ SNAKE [A.DEWJI-FRANCIS,G.REID] INTERSCOPE

Crash And Burn • Thomas Rhett

D.HUFF,J.FRASURE [J.FRASURE,C.STAPLETON] VALORY

Stitches # Shawn Mendes

DAYLIGHTJ.T.GEIGERII,D.PARKER[D.PARKER,J.T.GEIGERII,D.KYRIAKIDES] ISLAND/REPUBLIC

All Eyes On You Meek Mill Feat. Chrls Brown & Nlckl Minaj

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ADAVIDSCW,SDAVIDS0fcC0MBSAHENDERS0N,S,HCMStSA)0RDAN,R^^^ MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

Loving You Easy Zac Brown Band

ZBR0WNp.BR0WN,N.M00N,AANDERS0N] JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND

Take Your Time A Sam Hunt

Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY(S.HUNTJ.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY] MCANASHVILLE/CAPITOL

Nasty Freestyle T-Wayne

30ROC [T.D.NOBLES,S.GLOADE] WERUNIT/UNAUTHORIZED/300

1 Don’t Like It, 1 Love It Flo Rida Feat. Robin Ihlcke & VercHne White

SOFLY&NIUS,ODDFELLOWjTDILLARD,nROELSENJ.SANDERSON,

RJUDRIN,P.M^LKI,G.EARLEY^.SJSAACj. LUTTRELL,A.IZQUIERDO) POE BOY/ATLANTIC

Buy Me A Boat Chris Janson

CJANSON,C.DUBOIS^ANDERSON(CJANSON,C.DUBOIS) WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WAR

Slow Motion • Trey Songz

C.PUTH,GEOFFRO CAUSE [r.NEVERSON,C.PUTH,G.EARLEYJ.KHINDLIN] SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC

John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16 Keith Urban

D.HUFF,K.URBAN(S.MCANALLY,R.COPPERMANJ.OSBORNE] HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE

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Like A Wrecking Baii Eric Church

J.JOYCE [E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD] EMI NASHVILLE

This Couid Be Us Rae Sremmurd

MIKEWIlLMADETTWARZ(MROWN,KUBROWN,MiWILLIAMS,M.MIDOLEBIIDOKS] EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE

Renegades# X Ambassadors

ALEX[)AKID(AGRANT,S>JWARRIS;^.FELDSHUH,C.HARRISALEVINE] KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

Pianes # Jeremih Feat. j. coie

VINYLZFRANKDUKES(I.P.FELTONA.HERNANDEZ,

a.woodsj.cole,a.feeny,aadams,r.harris,k!ieffries] MICKSCHULTZ/DEFJAM

Be Reai # Kid Ink Feat, oej Loaf

DJ MUSTARD, JGRAMM (B.T.COLLINS,D.MCFARLANEJ.GRAMMA,

NAUDINO,L.HUGES,D.LEONARD,B.T.hAZZARD,D.M.lRIMBLEl THAALUMNIGROUP/BBCLASSIC/RCA

Kiss You in The Morning Michael Ray

S.HENDRICKS [J.WILSON.M.WHITE] ATLANTIC/WEA

R»i*C»0* Meek Mill Feat. Drake

VINYLZ,CUBEATZ(R.R.WILLIAMS,AGRAHAM,AHERNANOEZ,KGOMRINGER] MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

Young & Crazy Frankie Ballard

MALTMAN,S.HENDRICKS(A.GORLEY,S.MCANAliY,RAI<INS] WARNER BROS. NASH VILIE/WAR

Lose My Mind Brett Eldredge

RCOPPERMAHREiDREKElRELDREDGEKMORGANRmMAHRB^^^^^^^^ AHANRC/WMN

One Hell Of An Amen # Brantley Gilbert

D.HUFF [B.GILBERT,M.DEKLE,B.DAVIS] VALORY

Hell Of A Night Dustin Lynch

M.J.CONES [Z.CROWELL,A.SANDERS,J.BOYER] BROKEN BOW

Tonight Looks Good On You Jason Aldean

M.KNOX [D.DAVIDSON,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY] BROKEN BOW

Fun Pitbull Feat. Chris Brown

THEMONSIERS&STRANGERZJ.EVIGANJACPEREZ1.EVIGANG.COFFEEJR.,
M.ljOMAXliOHNSON,SJOHNSON,A.mUIER[)0,ABURNA,CM.BROWNi] MR 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

Omen Disclosure Feat, sam smith

DISCLOSURE[G.LAWRENCE,H.LAWRENCE,J.NAPIER,S.SMITH] METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL

Like rm Gonna Lose You Meghan Trainor Feat, jotn Legend

C.GELBUDA,M.TRAINOR [M.TRAINOR.J.WEAVER.C.SMITH] EPIC

Hotline Bling Drake

NINETEEN85(A.GRAHAM,P.JEFFERIES,nHOMAS] YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBIIC

Should’ve Been Us Tori Kelly

THEm,O.HOLTER(T.KELLU.SODERBERGJJERLM,O.HOLTERLPOURI(ARIMAKROm^^ SCHOOLBOY/CAPITOL

Ex’s & Oh’s ElleKing

D.BASSETT[E.KING,D.BASSETri RCA

How Deep Is Your Love Calvin Harris & Disciples

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N.DUVALL,G.KOOLMAN,L.MCDERMOTt,LWROLDSEN) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

Sangria # Blake Shelton

S.HENDRICKS[J.T.HARDING,J.OSBORNE,T. ROSEN) WARNERBROS.NASHVILLE/WMN

Do It Again Pia Mia Feat. Chns Brown & Tyga

NICNACLP.M.PEREZN.BA[DING,M.GRIFFIN.M.L.KRAGEN,

C.M.BROWN,M.RNGUYEN-SrEVENSON,J.AFEMATAG.VtlKOSO] WOLFPACK/INTERSCOPE

Ghost Town Adam Lambert

MAXMARTIN,A.PAYAMI(A.LAMB£RT,S.FOX,MAXMARTIN,T.KARLSSON,A.PAYAMI] WARNERBROS.

The Night Is Still Young Nick! Mina]

DR.LUKE,CIRKUT(0J.IW\IW,E.DEAN,LG0T1WALDJH0MAS,H.RWALTER] YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

Beautiful Now Zedd Feat, jon Beinon

ZEDD,ROCKMAFA[A.ZASLAVSKI,T.)AMES,AARMATO,D.CHILD,D.)OST,LBElilON] INTERSCOPE

El Perdon Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias

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].D.MEDINAVELEZ,TTHOMAS,TTHOMAS,E.M.IGLESIAS] COOISCOS/IAINDUSTRIA/SONYMUSCIATIN

Burning House Cam

J.BHASKER,T.JOHNSON [C.OCHS,T.JOHNSON,J.BHASKER] ARISTA NASHVILLE

Fly Maddie&Tae

D.HUFF [M.MARLOW,T.DYE,T.VARTANYAN] DOT

Charged Up Drake

M.BIDAYE,N.SHEBIB(A.GRAHAM,NJ.SHEBIB,M.BIDAYE,A.FEENY] YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

Save It For A Rainy Day Kenny Chesney

B.CANNON,KCHESNEY(ADORFF,M.RAMSEY,B.TURSI] BLUE CHAIR/OOLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SONY MUSIC

Cheyenne Jason Derulo

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L.R0BBINS,S.MARTIN,M.L0MW(JJ0HNS0N,IKIRKPATRICK,SJ0HNS0N1 belugaheights/warnerbros.

Drake roars onto the Billboard
Hot 100 with four songs, led by
the Meek Mill diss track "Back to
Back" at No. 21. (It sold 122,000
downloads in its first week,
according to Nielsen Music; for
more, see page 63). With the
four debuts, the rapper ties the
late James Brown for the fourth-
most entries — 91 each — in the
Hot lOO's 57-year history. The
cast of Fox's Glee leads with
207 charted titles, followed by
Lil Wayne (126) and Elvis Presley
(108). (Notably, Presley's 1956
arrival predated the Hot lOO's
launch by two years.) -g.t.

Weeks

Ago

Last

Week

This

Week

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I’m Cornin’ Over Chris Young

C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG [C.YOUNG.C.CROWDER.J.HOGE] RCA NASHVILLE

WetDreamz J.Cole

J.L.COLE (J.COLE,C.SIMMONS,R.HAMMOND] DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

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Real Life Jake Owen

S.MCANALLY,R. COPPERMAN [R.C0PPERMAN,AG0RLEY,S.MCANALLY,J.0SB0RNE] RCANASH\^ILE

Love You Like That # Canaan Smith

B.BEAVERS.J.ROBBINS [C.SMITH,B.BEAVERS,J.BEAVERS] MERCURY NASHVILLE

Break Up With Him Old Dominion

S.MCANALLY [M.RAMSEYT. ROSEN, B.TURSI,G.SPRUNG,W.SELLERS) RCA NASHVILLE

Commas Future

J.LUELLEN,DJ SPINZ [N.WILBURN CASHJ.H.LUELLEN,G.HILLS] A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

Anything Goes Florida Georgia Line

J.MOI [F.MCTEIGUE,CG.TOMPKINS,C.WISEMAN] REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

How Many TIITIGS DJ KhalGd Feat. Cliris Brown, Lil Wayne & Big Sean

Where Ya At Future Feat. Drake

L.WAYNE [N.WILBURN CASH,L.WAYNE,AGRAHAM] A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

100 The Game Feat. Drake

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NCW

Comfortable KCamp

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Alright Kendrick Lamar

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This Summer’s Gonna HurU Maroon 5

SHELLBACK [SHELLBACK, A.N.LEVINE] 222/INTERSCOPE

NEW

Let Me See Ya Girl Cole Swindell

M.CARTER [C.SWINDELL,M.CARTER,J.STEVENS) WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

NEW

Here Alessia Cara

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Ono Msn Csn Chsnga Dig Worid Biq Sssn Feat Kanye west & joiip Legend

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Crushin’ It Brad Paisley

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The Matrimony Wale Feat, usher

JAKE ONE,DJ KHALIL [QAKINTIMEHIN,J.DUnON,S.DEW] MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

If Only Dove Cameron

A.ANDERS,P.ASTROM [A.ANDERS,N.HASSMAN,P.ASTROM] WALT DISNEY

100

Good Thing Sage The Gemini Feat. Nick jonas

ILYA(D.WW00DS,I.SAlMANZADEH,SK0TtCHA,P.SVBJSS0N] BlAa MONEY/EMPIRE RECORDINGS/REPUBLC

Locked Away

"Locked" zooms into the Hot
lOO's top 40, powered mostly
by its 39-18 vault on Digital
Songs, and gains by 70 percent
to 51,000 downloads sold.

The 19-year-old makes her Hot
100 debut with loner anthem
"Here," which she performed
July 29 on NBC's The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,
spurring a 26 percent gain to
17,000 sold.

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Contents

THIS WEEK

Volume 127 / No. 24

ON THE COVER

From left: Ice Cube,
DJYella, Dr. Dreand
MC Ren photographed
by Eric Ray Davidson on
July ISatMilkStudios
in Los Angeles. For an
exclusive interview and
video of the foursome
discussing their 30-plus-
year bond (and lack of
egos), goto Billboard.com
or Billboard.com/ipad.

FEATURES

32 Return Of The Riot Squad As the

super-charged biopic Straight Outta
Compton hits multiplexes, the four
living members of N.W.A recount their
wild ride in an interview by their most
celebrated fan, fellow Compton native
Kendrick Lamar.

40 Digital Radio 2015 Apple Music’s lead
DJ Zane Lowe rates Beats 1 on its first 50
days. Plus: A user’s guide to the best
of Web radio, and Apple’s potential
threat to Pandora and SiriusXM.

THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

1 The Weeknd earns his first No. 1. ‘All
the hard work has paid off,” he says.

TOPLINE

9 SFX plunged headfirst into EDM and
scored a big initial public offering
in 2013, but after delays, drama and
downgraded stock, can it get its
act together?

12 Grunge-era favorite The Offspring is
shopping its masters and publishing
— for a reported $35 million.

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**We changed pop culture all over the
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18 Parties Outside Lands, Capitol
Congress

THE BEAT

23 CarlyRaeJepsen talks Bieber,

Broadway and moving past “Call Me
Maybe” on her “brave” new release.

25 Fresh off a $10 million deal with Warner
Bros., Mac Miller opens up about
depression and drug use.

STYLE

29 Ripped denim is the new rock-star
uniform for men.

30 Fall’s coolest art book comes with a
vinyl LP from musician Blake Mills. Plus:
The Gaga-approved kimono trend.

REVIEWS

45 Dr. Dre, Luke Bryan, The Isley
Brothers and a Q&A with 2 Live
Crew’s Luther Campbell.

BACKSTAGE PASS

49 Indie label Fat Wreck Chords
celebrates its 25th anniversary.

CHARTS

52 One Direction’s “Drag Me Down”
debuts with the group’s best sales
week ever.

54 Charts

68 Coda In 1992, Boyz II Men scored
a 13-week streak at No. 1 with “End of
the Road.”

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SFX*S EDM PROBLEM
(AND VICE VERSA)

FOUNDER ROBERT SILLERMAN’S DANCE-MUSIC GAMBLE IS FACING
STEEP ODDS AS IT BATTLES CASH CRISES, MANAGEMENT INSTABILITY,
A SPIRALING STOCK PRICE AND PERCEPTION PROBLEMS

BY GLENN PEOPLES

AS THE DANCE MUSIC BOOM
became a roar in 2012, SFX
founder Robert Sillerman, who

had sold previous incarnations
of his multifacted live entertain-
ment company for billions, saw
his chance. He began snatching
up properties in the genre, and
with financing and proceeds from
a splashy $260 million IPO in
October 2013, ultimately acquired a
spate of EDM promoters — includ-
ing ID&T (with its Tomorrowland
and Mysteryland festivals). Made
Event (Electric Zoo, which suffered
three drug-related deaths in 2013)

and Disco Donnie Presents —
along with dance-music download
and streaming service Beatport,
ticketing company Paylogic and
artist management firm TMWRK,
among others. Within two years,
he had built what he hoped was an
EDM powerhouse.

Sillerman’s EDM rager, though,
may have already peaked. In the
last 13 months SEX has endured
multiple management changes,
suffered from cash shortfalls, seen
its stock plummet, delivered late
royalty payments to labels and
been targeted by a lawsuit against
Sillerman, 67. Even his attempt
at a dens ex machina — solving
the stock challenges by taking
the company private — has been
plagued by financing problems and
increasingly pessimistic investors.

Sillerman’s formula — to create
a focused conglomerate through
acquisitions of stand-alone
companies — has worked in the
past. In the 1990s, he rolled up
71 radio stations before selling
to Capstar Broadcasting for $2.1
billion in 1997. Next, he bought up
regional concert promoters and
sold the resulting company, SEX
Entertainment, to Clear Channel in
2000 for $4.4 billion.

But where competitors like
Live Nation have acquired EDM
properties as a way to expand and
further diversify their holdings,
sex’s strategy looks more like a
haphazard spree. Says one insider:
“He overpaid in cash and left indi-
vidual operators with complete
freedom to manage the businesses
they just sold.”

THE OVER UNDER

Drake's mixtape, If You're
Reading This It's Too Late,
becomes the first million-selling
album of 2015.

Jay Z's Roc Nation sees three
major executives leave while the
wait for Rihanna'sand Kanye
West's albums goes on... and on.

Jeff Kwatinetz revives The
Firm — bringing along Ice Cube,
whose Straight Outta Connpton
headsfor a$35 million-plus
opening weekend.

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And the company’s overall
performance has been disappointing,
says Steven Azarbad, chief
investment officer at Maglan Capital,
a former SFX shareholder. “It has
overpromised and underdelivered on
so many levels,” he says, noting that
SFX has grown revenue but hasn’t
been able to convert popular festivals
and brand sponsorships into cash flow
and earnings growth. “It’s hard to
have confidence in the business.”

Onlookers question SFX’s leader-
ship. “Sillerman showed no cohesive
strategy in the companies he was
acquiring,” says a dance music
insider. “It was as if he thought that
just because he brought some smart
people onboard, they’d come up
with something
amazing, without
any clear direction
from SFX execu-
tives.” In fact,

SFX has had
three rounds of
executive changes
in 13 months.

Greg Consigllo
was named presi-
dent/C 00 in January before moving
over to president/CEO of Beatport
in July (which an SFX rep says was
always planned). The sponsorships
arm, vital to SFX’s business model,
lost chief marketing officer Chris
Stephenson in January and senior
vp Javier Farfan two months later.
And Sillerman andSheidon Finkei,
SFX’s chairman of strategy and devel-
opment, are defendants in a $100
million lawsuit by three men who
claim they helped build SFX but didn’t
receive their promised equity shares.

Making matters worse, in early
August, Beatport delayed royalty
payments to some labels and
artists, telling them through email
that certain funds were “trapped”
by SFX’s going-private process. A
press release issued two days later
announced that payments would
resume the following week, but the
damage was done: Sillerman said
he was “deeply embarrassed” by his
company’s “inexcusable” actions.

It has all taken a toll on SFX’s
stock, to say nothing of its reputation.
Before earnings were released
Aug. 10, SFX shares lost nearly 23
percent of their value and hit an
all-time low of $2.26, an 83 percent
decline from the $13 IPO price in
2013. Second- quarter earnings

showed SFX lost $47.9 million but
grew revenue 48 percent to $121 mil-
lion (and the stock did rise as much as
8 percent the following day).

Sillerman doesn’t have time on his
side, either. A deadline of Aug. 13 has
been set to secure financing for his
proposal and take SFX private. The
market seems to have little faith: The
Aug. 10 closing price of $2.36 was 55
percent below Sillerman’s $5.25 bid.
(If investors thought they would be
offered $5.25, the spread between
closing and offer prices would be
small.) As of press time, no other
bid is on the table (says a source:
“Bob’s shaken every tree”), although
SFX says it received “indications
of interest” regarding “various

components” of
its business.

Yet for all
the drama and
uncertainty,
Sillerman could
still pull it off.
Azarbad calls
SFX’s missteps
“unfortunate,
because I do think
it’s a fantastic business. These are
good brands and festivals, but it’s not
materializing on the bottom line.”

Josh Baron, co-author of
Masters: The Rise of the Concert
Industry and How the Public Got
Scalped, adds, “It’s still early days
for both electronic music in North
America and for a verdict on whether
SFX is a success.”

Rich Tullo, an analyst with Albert
Fried & Co., offers, “The second
quarter was good enough to enable
him to line up financing on a revenue
basis. Give it a couple of years, and
they should make [earnings of] $50
million to $100 million annually
without much of a problem.”

He and Azarbad believe Sillerman
can acquire the company, but the
public perception may be another
matter. “Sillerman needs to step back
and find a more authentic CEO who
understands an industry as delicate
as dance music,” says the EDM
insider. “These people can smell
inauthenticity a mile away, and will
go out of their way to avoid it.”

Of the claim that SEX overprom-
ised, “We can understand that point
of view,” says an SEX rep. “It’s just
taking longer to deliver than we
expected. We remain focused on
building a world-class company.” O

Zedd onstage at the 2014 Electric Zoo
festival in New York.

SURF GUITAR LEGEND DICK DALE
TOURS TO STAY ALIVE — LITERALLY

Twenty years after Pulp Fiction kickstarted his second act, the
78-year-old struggles to pay the bills the only way he knows how

BY CHRIS WILLMAN

Rock's original legends are
aging into their 70s and 80s,
but you rarely hear about
the severity of their health
issues, since an ongoing touring
career involves maintaining the
appearance of physical vitality,
if not eternal youth. Count Dick
Dale as the exception: The "king
of the surf guitar" may just
do for real talk about senior
maladies what he did for reverb
and amps in the early 1960s,
being perhaps the one
seminal musician of
his generation who's
eager to rock you
like a hurricane
and discuss extreme
renal failure .

Dale ' s health
concerns have become
an unlikely viral
story following the
wide dissemination of
a July 29 interview for
the Pittsburgh City Paper that
had the guitar hero declaring:

"I can't stop touring because
I will die. Physically and
literally, I will die." His
road regimen has less to do with
the love of satisfying oldies
hounds and Quentin Tarantino
fans (1962's "Misirlou" having
found a second life as the
theme to 1994' s Pulp Fiction)
than with paying medical bills
for diabetes, post-cancer
treatment and other debilitating
conditions. Suddenly, he's the
poster child for a generation
that's not too sick to work, but
too sick to retire .

In speaking about his
condition, however, the 78-year-
old Dale is surprisingly self-
deprecating, luridly regaling
Billboard with tales of the

limitations of urinary bags
in high-pressure show-biz
situations. "The bag used to
be on my right side, then the
doctors took it out of there
because there was so much scar
tissue and put it on the left
side of me." Problem: He's one
of rock's legendary lefties,
playing an upside-down rightie's
guitar. "I told them, 'Don't
put it there because my guitar
lays against it. It'll break
it.' But they did." His
five-decade-old back
problem, meanwhile,
dictates his crew has
to lift him onto the
drum riser so Dale
can indulge in his
nightly Gene Krupa-
style drum-off with
his percussionist. "Even
with my illnesses," he
claims, "I'm faster with
my hands than ever."

His is not a case of lacking
health care - he's double
covered - but of insurers
refusing to pay for the
replenishment of supplies
necessary to keep him infection-
free. That's why Dale says he
has to tour .

"If I had the money coming
in, I'd stay home with Lana" -
his beloved wife, manager and
booking agent - "But I've also
got to realize I've been kept
alive for a reason. People are
not only coming to a concert,
they're coming to a way of life.
It's not, 'Oh, I'm suffering
down here and you're having a
good time up there. ' I can tell
them how much goddamn pain I'm
going through 'up there. ' I let
them know: I've got the same
crap you ' ve got . "

Dale with his
wife and
manager, Lana.

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Come out and pay: Six albums by the SoCal rockers have a price tag of $35 million, say sources

From left: The
Offspring's Kevin
Wasserman,Ron
Welty, Holland
and Greg Kriesel
in the late '90s.

BY ED CHRISTMAN

T he early 1990s were banner
years for The Offspring.

Capitalizing on a homegrown
following, the Southern
California rockers, fronted by Dexter
Holland, catapulted to the top of
Billboard's Alternative chart in 1994
with "Come Out and Play" — their
success so swift, Columbia Records
snatched them upfrom indie label
Epitaph, agreeing to return the band's

catalog after an 18-year period.

That benchmark came to pass in
2014, when the group gained control
of masters to six albums released
by Sony Music. Now, according to
sources. The Offspring is shopping
those LPs along with its music
publishing. The asking price? In the
$30 million to $35 million range. (The
deal could also include a new album.)

The Offspring notched impressive

numbers in its day. According to
Nielsen Music, the band's U.S.
album sales total nearly 17 million
units, and track sales number more
than 4.2 million. Of the Columbia
recordings, the assets being shopped
include 1997's Ixnayon the Hombre,
featuring radio smash "Pretty Fly
(For a White Guy)," with 1.4 million
albums sold; 1998's Americana (5
million); and 2000's Conspiracy of

One (1.2 million). Also available are
publishing rights to songs outside
of the Columbia catalog, including
"Come Out and Play" and "Self
Esteem" off 1993's aptly titled
Smash. Both songs were not only
anthems of the time but also continue
to have significant recurrent play on
such stations as KROQ Los Angeles.
The station leads all Alternative chart
reporters with 7,000 and 8,000 plays
to date for the tracks, respectively.
The band's assets generate about
$3.1 million in combined annual net
publisher's share and label share,
sources say. Of that, two-thirds can
be attributed to master recordings,
insiders estimate.

Clearly, longtime manager Jim
Guerinot of Laguna Beach, Calif.-
based Rebel Waltz was thinking
ahead when he negotiated the act's
first major-label deal in 1996. It's a
reality that he believes the music
business of the future will have to face
with regularity. Speaking to Billboard
in 2014, he said, "One thing is for sure
about new contracts: Marquee artists
will own their own masters. That's the
bedrock conversation."

Who might come to the table as a
potential bidder? Sources say Sony
Music, which knows the catalog and
understands its economic might,
and Round Hill are likely suitors. The
band's management did not respond
to a request for comment. O

Omar (left) and Yankee
EXCLUSIVE onstage in 2013.

Don Omar And
Daddy Yankee To
Tour Together

A boxing match-theme(d trek between
the former foes will launch Dec. 5

MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, DON OMAR AND
Daddy Yankee were collaborators on underground
hits like “Gata Gangster,” but their relationship
turned sour. Some say it was over publishing rights,
others contend it was due to feuding financial
backers; no one will speak on the record. But
whatever the reason, Omar (real name: William
Landron) and Yankee (real name: Raymond
Ayala), the rising stars of the then-new reggaeton
movement brewing on the streets of Puerto Rico,
let their differences devolve into the most fiery rap
battle in Latin music history (sample lyric, from
Yankee: “Everyone knows there’s no one more
plastic than Landron”).

But in 2009, the two shocked audiences by
appearing onstage together in Puerto Rico.
Immediately, big-money offers for a tour started
pouring in, although nothing materialized.

Until now: Kingdom — a 60-date Yankee/Omar
tour that is scheduled to run for two years — will
launch Dec. 5 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The
partnership also includes a joint album and a
TV show for the two artists, who between them
have 60 million Facebook and Twitter followers.

11 No. IS on Billboard^ s Top Latin Albums chart,

28 top 10 hits on Hot Latin Songs, and have sold
more than 5 million albums in the United States,
according to Nielsen Music.

But the question remains: Why now?

“I was motivated by doing something completely
different — and by the size of the offer,” says
Yankee, 38. “This is a sport, and I like to be the best
athlete.” Omar has slightly stronger words. “Let
me clarify: I am not his best friend, and he is not my
best friend,” says the 37-year-old. “But we respect
each other. That desire to be the best is what has
pushed us to be better.”

The tour is framed as a musical boxing match,
with the two artists trading off musical sets or
“rounds,” and with fans voting for their winner in
each city through an app designed for the event.
“Two kings, one throne,” says veteran concert
promoter Raphy Pina, who took over Omar’s
touring in 2013 and came up with the concept.

Both Omar and Yankee say they welcome the
competition. “There’s a professional rivalry, and
we’re both going to show our best,” says Omar. “It’s
stressful, and I love it.” -lei la cobo

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finding it now. And hopefullythere will
continue to be what there has been
historically in this country, which has been
a risky investment in creative artists."

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Burnett

The master producer-supervisor on
True Detective’s rocky season,
Taylor Swift vs. Apple and why he's
happy not to be working with his wife

BY CHRIS WILIMAN

PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHRISTOPHER PATEY

J OSEPH HENRY “T BONE” BURNETT

doesn’t actually have a desk in his office at
the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood,
but a symbolic resume of his long career
can be gleaned from the artwork on the walls.
Framed Alpha Band posters from the late ’70s
represent his (mostly abandoned) career as a
recording artist. A painting byJohnMellencamp
is a tip-off to his subsequent legacy as one of the
most celebrated producers of the era, with career-
redefining albums by Elvis Costello, Elton John

and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss among the
dozens he has helmed. Photographs by director
Wim Wenders point to yet a third career, as a film
composer and music supervisor especially known
for Joel and Ethan Coen films like O Brother,

Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis, along
with the TV series Nashville (executive-produced
by his wife, CallieKhouri) and True Detective. His
Oscar and 11 Grammys? At home in a closet.

As ever, Burnett, 67, has no shortage of high-
profile projects in the can, including the upcoming
PBS documentary Epic, a history of

regional recording in the ’20s and ’30s, produced
in collaboration with Jack White and Robert
Red ford. He’s taking on more roles still, like
leading his own Capitol Label Group imprint.
Electromagnetic (first signing: Los Angeles band
MlnlManslons),as well as developing multi-
media ideas for the other Capitol labels. But there’s
little chance of these executive functions turning
Burnett into “a suit” — even if he was one of the
first guys in rock’s post-counterculture era to start
donning formal wear full time.

How has your focus shifted since you teamed
up with Capitol?

One new thing is publishing — I made a deal with
Spirit Music to publish young songwriters and help
place things for people in film and TV. And [Capitol
chairman/CEO] Steve Barnett and I are working
closely — he’s as good as the very best people I’ve
worked with in the record business. It reminds

me a lot of working with [legendary label heads]
Lenny Waronker and Mo Ostin in the ’80s at
Warner Bros. I’m spending a lot of time looking at
developing shows and films based around music,
working on vehicles for any of the artists there.

In 2013, you had a quote about Silicon
Valley’s effect on the music business: “We
should go up there with pitchforks and
torches ” Are there any recent developments
you have found encouraging?

It was interesting to watch a 25-year- old woman
[Taylor Swift] face down Apple. That was
encouraging, because that’s where the power lies:
with the artists. There was a very well-orchestrated
campaign against Metallica when Lars Ulrich
said, “Somebody’s going to make a lot of money
from this, but it’s not going to be the musicians.”

I think it’s clear now that the audience is saying,
“Musicians should be paid.” We need a new field
of what I would call transaction rights, so when a
[stream] takes place, a small payment goes to the
actual creators, rather than into a black box and
divided according to what keeps another entity
running. If we do that, the democratizing process
of the Internet can actually begin to take place.

As a producer, you had an Image as the guy
who worked with heritage acts. Lately you’ve
done Striking Matches, Mini Mansions, Secret
Sisters and Rhiannon GIddens, all of whom
are under 40. Is that Intentional?

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It’s rewarding to collaborate with a veteran when
we can make something together that’s vibrant and
vital. But you have to create something powerful
to lead somebody to buy a new record rather than
one of the 30 other records [by the artist] . So I don’t
want to set somebody up for disappointment and

waste a lot of time and money if it’s not going to
turn into something really wonderful for them. As
for “the kids,” it wasn’t a conscious decision. Some
of the other projects I was doing, like Inside Llewyn
Davis, brought a lot of younger people in and led to
other things. And if you can help frame something
for a young act, you can set them up for long runs.
I’ve done that several times in the past, like with
Los Lobos orBoDeans or Counting Crows or
Gillian Welch.

The other thing is, the older people aren’t even
interested in making records that often. It’s a lot
of work and focus. Jerry Lee Lewis and I were
talking about doing a record, and I came up with
this crazy-great playlist for him. Like “Tower of
Song” by Leonard Cohen: Read that lyric and
think of Jerry Lee singing it, and you can see he
would absolutely murder it. But, you know, he’s
just too old to learn it. It’s too many words!

Are you doing a follow-up to The Diving Board,
the record you produced for Elton John?

We just finished a new Elton record that’s beautiful.
It’s a very upbeat rock’n’roll record. That last album
was a particular group of very personal material;
this is broadcasting. That one was a parlor record;
this is a festival.

Were you happy with the New Basement
Tapes project, where Elvis Costello, Marcus
Mumford, Jim James and others wrote and
recorded new music for unreleased Bob
Dylan lyrics from 1967?

That project was one of the most extraordinary
events of my life, and I feel like it’s still a work
in progress. We got five people that didn’t know
each other together for 10 days and wrote and
recorded 45 new songs. It was epic, and I don’t
think that really came across yet. There’s a
film we’re editing that may end up being the
definitive version of that whole event, a concert
film we shot at the Montalban [in Los Angeles]
that was really the fruit of the whole experience.
By the way, there are another 20-some-odd
songs we haven’t released, and we might put
out another album of that stuff next year. I look
forward to being a steward of that material over
the next several years.

Let’s talk about True Detective, People
obsessed over the fact that you’re using

different verses from the Leonard Cohen
theme song for each episode and what that
might mean.

To me, “Never Mind” is the song of the century
so far, coming from one of the wisest men in our
culture. I look at it as an extraordinary gift to the

audience. It feels very much like Los Angeles
right now: beautiful, dark, brooding, dangerous,
covert. The reason the lyrics change is just
because there are a lot of important lyrics in the
song that all apply, and we’re doing our best to
play the whole song for people. There’s another
piece that we used in the [sixth] episode: the
second movement of Harmonielehre, the John
Adams symphony, one of the most important
works of 20th-century minimalism. It crazily
applied to this place and this world. I can tell you,
just as a hint, if you read about what the second
movement of Harmonielehre is about, you’ll see ...

Everything’s woven together very tightly. There
has been a lot of thought put into every one of
these things.

You’re aware of the backlash against the
show’s second season?

I’ve heard criticisms of the show, and almost all of
them are “This is all cliches, and I can’t understand
anything that’s going on.” (Laughs.) Which is a
beautiful dichotomy.

Your wife Is still In charge of Nashviiie, You
had some harsh words for ABC after you
stepped down as music supervisor on the
series. Have you paid attention to what your
successor. Buddy Miller, has done?

Not at all. (Laughs.) But Gallic seems very happy
with how he has kept things going. When Gallic ’s
home, we’re happy to not talk about work. I work
from an immersive place. While I was doing the
show, I was sealed off from that. And now ...

You’re happy to not have to think about It?

Yeah. You know, there’s an old saying that no
marriages survive television. Well, ours has
survived! And will. O

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1 Apainting byJohn
Mellencamp serves as
avisualfocal point for
Burnett's 12th-floor
office in the Capitol
Records Tower. 2 Books
by Vladimir Nabokov and
T.S. Eliot adorn the coffee
table. 3 Two of Burnett's
toys: a Mellotron and a
Swarmatron. 4 An album
by Cajun-popsinger
Johnnie Allen receives
prime placementin
Burnett's vinyl pile. "He
hasagreatsong called
'Somewhere on Skid Row'
— deep Louisiana," says
Burnett, adding, "That
Little Richard album is
one great performance
after another."

“There has been a lot of thought put into every
[musical element] in True Detective,”

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*MILEY CYRUS IS
THE EPITOME OF
THE VMAs*

Producer Jesse Ignjatovic
on the Aug. 30 telecast —
MTV vet Van Toffler's last

BY STEVE BALTIN

"I have a few things up in the air,"
downplays Jesse Ignjatovic, 46,
executive producer of the MTV Video
Music Awards, two weeks ahead of
the curtain rising at Los Angeles'
Microsoft Theatre. The Aug. 30 event

marks the last time MTV veteran Van
Toffler, who officially exited as
president of the network in April,
toplines the telecast. It won't
be a quiet exit, either, seeing
how Miley Cyrus is set to host (so
far, only The Weeknd is confirmed
to be performing). MTV's hope:

Besides upping viewership from a
disappointing 8.3 million in 2014
(down 18 percent from 2013) , to
connect with VMAs of years past, if
not the 2013 show necessarily (foam
finger, anyone?), then the 2011
edition that featured a pregnant
Beyonce, Lady Gaga in drag and Adele
in all her pre-Grammy- sweeping glory.

What has Van Toffler brought to the
show, and how do you say goodbye?

He's the heart and soul of this
show. We're on calls and meetings
every week, and he really inspires
[everyone]. In terms of my part, I
wouldn't be doing this show if it
wasn't for Van. He was kind enough to
allow me to pitch creative in 2007,
and I had this crazy idea of taking
over a hotel in Las Vegas. He loved
it. Van, in a nutshell, wants to go
on crazy adventures. So he will be
missed. Every artist in the room
would say that .

Having Miley Cyrus host seems a
risky affair on live TV. How will the
network censors deal with her antics?

Miley knows how far she can push
things and where it would cross the
line. [Whether] it's language or
concepts for a pre-tape that go too
far, she's the first to say, "You
probably won't let me do that."

To this point, there hasn't been
anything where you'd need to have a
finger on a button ready to press it
. . . She just likes to have fun, and
I think it's going to carry
through the whole show. And,
of course, she will throw in
some surprises .

I don't see this as Miley
taking the stage and we're all
concerned about what she's
going to say. I think the
opposite: I'm excited for what she'll
say and do as host. Miley Cyrus is the
epitome of the VMAs.

How will you take advantage of
the smaller setting that the
7,100-capacity Microsoft Theater
[formerly the Nokia Theatre] offers?

It was important for us to get back
into that room where we were in 2011
when we had Beyonce with the baby
bump or Gaga as Jo Calderone or

Adele's performance, when she was
solo on the piano and just nailed it.
We can do those kinds of moments when
the room is not overwhelming in terms
of scope and scale. We've made an
effort to create an environment where
we can go very intimate and where the
audience can be very close to the
action. And by audience, I mean fans,
as opposed to music executives.

In your nine years working on the
VMAs, which were most special to you?

I do hold Vegas [in 2007] up
there in terms of approach.

And I love what we did in
Brooklyn in 2013 - I thought it
was a powerful show in terms of
the community, the aesthetic,
the design and the way artists
embraced it .

Would you ever tie the VMAs into a
festival?

Absolutely - that's an area I would
love to explore. Fans want to touch
music, they want to experience it as
a gathering more than just watching
it on your laptop. That really has me
excited about the future of music,
because young people are so into going
to see live music and experiencing it
socially with other people.

Roy Orbison*s MGM Years
Get The Royal Treatment

Universal will issue a 14-LP box set ancJ
an unreleasecJ album to observe the
50th anniversary of the singer s deal

BY GARY GRAFF

R ock and roll hall of famer

Roy Or bison is celebrated primarily for
his years with the Sun and Monument
Records labels, where he recorded such
career- defining hits as “Ooby Dooby,” “Only the
Lonely,” “In Dreams,” “Crying” and “Oh, Pretty
Woman” in the ’50s and early ’60s. But 50 years
ago, at the height of Beatlemania, the singer was
the obj ect of a fierce bidding war that led to a $1
million move to MGM Records. His
eight-year, 12-album tenure there was
not as commercially successful as his
previous years, but with top 40 and
international hits like “Ride Away” and
“Breakin’ Up Is Breakin’ My Heart,” it
was still creatively vital. And Orbison’s
heirs are ensuring that era of his career
gets its due.

In December, Roys Boys LLC — the Nashville-
based company run by sons Wesley, Roy Jr.
and Alex Orbison — will release a pair of

projects from the MGM vaults through
Universal Music Enterprises. The
153-song MGM Years will feature all of
Orbison’s albums plus a rarities compilation, while
One of the Lonely Ones is an unreleased 12-track
album recorded in 1969 but shelved due to what
Alex calls “a logjam of releases” and some financial

issues with the label. A copy of that album will be
included with the first 500 preordered physical
copies of the box set, and with preorders of the
digital version.

Alex says the two releases mark the beginning
of a campaign to put the MGM catalog, much
of which has been long out of print, back into
circulation. Universal’s purchase of Polydor
Records, which previously had taken over the
MGM catalog, made the company the partner
for Roys Boys and for worldwide releases of the
catalog. “We have creative control and final say
on everything,” adds Alex. “In essence, we’re the
record company.”

Orbison —who died of a heart attack Dec. 6, 1988
at the age of 52 — signed his deal with MGM (which
made front-page news in Billboard on July 1, 1965)
just 11 months after “Oh, Pretty Woman” became
his second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. But the
then-eye-popping sum was only part of the allure,
according to Alex. The deal had Orbison entering
the film world with songs for The Moonshine Wars
and Zabriskie Point, and even acting, with a starring
role in 1967 ’s The Fastest Guitar Alive.

“The distinguishing factor was that MGM was
going to give Roy total creative freedom, from the
musicians he wanted to the songs he was going to
pick,” explains Alex. “For a person as fiercely cre-
ative as my dad, that control was really important.”

“Roy was a genius,” says Gurb Records founder
Mike Curb, who worked with and produced
Orbison at MGM. “He could sing as low as you
wanted and as high as you wanted. You just sat
there in amazement.” O

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1-04

-05

Parquet Courts signed with
Rough Trade Records.

JoshGroban relisted his
Malibu estate for $4,695
million. The 3,294-square-
foot residence features
four bedrooms and three
bathrooms, as well as a tennis
court, swimming pool, spa
and access to one of Point
Dume's private beaches.

Universal Music Group
named industry veteran
Jay Frank to the newly
created position
of senior vp global
streaming marketing.

Frank

The New York Times
appointed Caryn Ganz

pop music editor.

Ken Parks, Spotify's first
stateside employee and chief
content officer, exited the
company to join online video
startup Pluto TV as its new
executive chairman.

C06

08-07

Digital music veteran Bob
Roback was named CEO of
INgrooves parent company
Isolation Network.

The B-52s singer-keyboardist

Kate Pierson married
longtime partner Monica
Coleman in Hawaii.

3-08

Superior Music Publishing
signed electronic
artists Mocean Worker
and Ursula 1000.

iHeartMedia tapped

Rod Phillips to lead the
company's Nashville-based
iHeartCountry team.

UTA signed rapper

French Montana for

representation in all areas.

Montana

Lady Antebellum's
Charles Kelley and wife
Cassie announced thatthey
are expecting their first child.

Hall &Oates signed to
Artist Group International
(Billy Joel, Metallica,

Neil Young) for exclusive
booking worldwide.

RCA Records signed
electronic act Matthew Koma.

08-12

Real Madrid soccer
player Cristiano Ronaldo

launched the ROC Live Life
Loud headphone line in
partnership with Beats by Dre
designer Monster.

Pandora vp business affairs/
assistant general counsel

Chris Harrison exited the
company for an unspecified
role at SiriusXM.

TOPLINE

Rapper Sean Price, one-half
of the duo Heltah Skelta

and a member of New York
hip-hop collective Boot Camp
Cllk, died of unknown causes
at his home in Brooklyn. He
was 43.

APA elevated agent Jaime
Kelsall to vice president in its
concerts division.

Country singer Jana Kramer
and her husband, NFL player
Michael Caussin, announced
thatthey are expecting their
first child together.

Afederal judge in New York
tossed out the copyright
infringement lawsuit
against Sony/ATV Latin
and Sony/ATV Discos over
Shakira's hit "Loca," citing
fabricated evidence. Indie
publisher Mayimba Music
broughtforth the original suit
in 2012.

Weller Media Agency
appointed Kelly Rldgway,

formerly of Cult Records, as
head of digital marketing and
communications in its newly
opened New York office.

Billboard and the Barclays
Center announced plans
to launch an exclusive
300-capacity club inside the
Brooklyn venue, setto open
in September.

BIRTHDAYS

Aug. 15

Joe Jonas (26)

Aug. 16

Vanessa Carlton (35)
Emily Robison (43)
Madonna (57)

Aug. 17

Belinda Carlisle (57)

Aug. 18

Regine Chassagne (38)

Aug. 19

Romeo (26)

Missy Higgins (32)

Fat Joe (45)

Lee Ann Womack (49)

Aug. 20

Fred Durst (45)

Robert Plant (67)

Aug. 21

Kenny Rogers (77)

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DAYS

Drake during his
performance at Canada's
Squamish Valley Music
Festival on Aug. 8.

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IMiley Cyrus and
herfather Billy Ray
(right) joined Michael
Starr, frontman of
Los Angeles comedy-
metal band Steel
Panther, during the
group's performance
as the last show ever
atthe House of Blues
in West Hollywood
on Aug.4.2BillyJoel
(left) was joined by special guest
Paul Simonforthefinal show at
Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale,
N.Y.,on Aug.4.3Snoop Dogg
at the Straight Outta Compton
premierein Los Angeles on
Aug. 10. 4 Demi Lovato in
Sydneyon Aug. lO.SFrom
left: Power managers Punch
Andrews (Bob Seger), LeeTrink
(Kid Rock) and Paul Rosenberg
(Eminem) at Rock's concert at
the DTE Energy Music Theater
in Clarkston, Mich., on Aug. 7.

6 Bjork during her performance at
England's Wilderness Festival in
Oxfordshire on Aug. 7.

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AYS on the SCENE

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Outside Lands

SAN FRANCISCO, AUG. 7-9

AFTER FIVE SUCCESSIVE SELLOUTS, THE EIGHTH
annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival joined the
ranks of mega music events like Coachella and Lollapalooza
with all 210,000 tickets selling out in 45 minutes. But it
wasn’t just the crowd’s reaction to such heavyhitters as
Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & Sons, Wllco, Tame Impala
and Elton John that set the Golden Gate Park-based
festival apart from others this summer. Outside Lands
was noticeably populated with musicians who themselves
had the opportunity to be fans. Mac DeMarco and his
bandmates caught Lamar’s performance and gushed to
Billboard^ “That was amazing.” St. Vincent (real name:
Annie Clark) had similar VIP access to D’Angelo’s
headlining set, where his guitarist, Jesse Johnson,
complimented her on her Saturday Night Live appearance
in May. But for Sam Smith, the event was an altogether
monumental experience. “Being able to play before Elton
John is a dream come true,” he told the crowd during his
performance. Echoing Smith, The Black Keys’ Patrick
Carney told Billboard: “I’ve seen Elton a bunch of times
during other festivals we’ve played, but I still stuck around
for him, obviously.” -david sikorski

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ISt. Vincentduring her
raucous performance on
Aug. 7. 2 D'Angelo onstage
on Aug. 7. 3 Laura Marling on
Aug.8.4Billy Idol ranthrougha
career's worth of hits on Aug. 8,
including "White Wedding"
and his cover of "Mony Mony,"
followed by screaming, "This
next song only takes two words
to introduce: ‘Rebel Yell'V
5 Misterwives on Aug. 8. 6 John
emerged wearing an electric-
blue tuxedo with the word
"Fantastic" written across the
back on Aug. 9. The Rock and
Roll Hall of Famer played such
classics as "Bennie and the
Jets," "Candle in the Wind"
and "Rocket Man."

Capitol Congress

HOLLYWOOD, AUG. 5

For its third annual confab at Hollywood's ArcLight Theatre,
Capitol Music Group invited employees and industry insiders to a
presentation of its recent successes and near-future plans

1 From left: Capitol Music Group COO Michelle
Jubelirer, Universal Music Publishing Group
chairman/CEO Jody Gerson and CMG chairman/CEO
Steve Barnett. Throughout the daylong conference,
Barnett curated interviews with industry insiders and
such acts as Disclosure and Don Henley. 2 Universal
Music Group chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge (left)
with Henley. 3 Ryan Adams (left), one of the night's
most buzzed-about attendees, with Blue Note
chairman Don Was. 4 Katy Perry (left) and Tori Kelly.

5 From left: iHeartMedia senior vp John Ivey, CMG
executive vp Greg Thompson, UMG executive vp U.S.
recorded music Michele Anthony and iHeartMedia
chairman/CEO Bob Pittman.

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1 WANTED
TO BE
BRAVE*

Carly Rae Jepsen knows she doesn't
have another "Call Me Maybe" on her
latest album. But with a new outlook
and a new love, she's fine with that

BY STEVEN J. HOROWITZ
PHOTOGRAPHED BY

BIOSSOM BERKOFSKY

C ARLY RAE JEPSEN’S SLINKY, LAVENDER-COLORED SILK

dress keeps sliding dangerously down her chest. “You let me
know if I’m showing too much of a party,” says the singer, 29, sitting
in a dark, deserted rum bar in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “It wouldn’t
be much to see, these inverted As.”

These days, Jepsen is showing a sexier, looser, less guarded side. Following
up the squeaky-clean, high-school- crush pop of her inescapable smash “Call
Me Maybe,” which spent nine weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 2012, her
new album, E-Mo-Tion (due Aug. 21 on 604/School Boy/Interscope), wades
into edgier, more mature alt-pop territory, mixing the same throwback power
of Taylor Swift’s ip8p with, says Jepsen, a more “sexual thread.”

“There’s a stereotype idea of what a pop star is, and I don’t really fit into
that,” says Jepsen, who collaborated with indie darlings like Dev Hynes,
Ariel Rechtshaid and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij forthe
set. “The expectation that every song you’re putting out is doing well on
radio — that’s stuff that you can’t control. To try would drive you insane.”

Stepping outside of her comfort zone is a relatively new thing for Jepsen, a
self- described former “goody goody” who “had an agenda with every hour
mapped out.” Chalk up her control issues to having four hands-on parents

* • i

_PF MUSIC
WIGHT NOW

"If I lived my life for plarhB, I would
always regret it," says Jepsen,
photographed July 10 at Experimental
Cocktail Club in New York. For an
exclusive video of the artist, go to
Billboard.com or Billboard.com/ipad.

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the beat

— two biological, two stepparents — all of whom
worked as teachers or principals near her hometown
of Mission, British Columbia. “I remember going

to elementary school and finding it weird that some
kids only had two parents,” she recalls. “I was like,
‘How do you make that work? You need four!’ ”

It was when Jepsen went to performing-arts
college to pursue her musical dreams — ignoring
her father’s skepticism — that she first started
shaking off “that feeling where I was just trying
to be so perfect,” she says. “I remember sending
my father a PowerPoint presentation hoping that
he could digest it. If I lived my life for plan B, I
would always regret it.”

Plan A led her to Canadian Idol, where she
placed third in 2007. Undeterred by the loss,
Jepsen supported herself with waitressing jobs
and street gigs in Mission. “I remember busking
on the street and my father’s secretary walked by,
and I was like, ‘Uh oh,’ ” she says. In 2008, she
released her folky, acoustic-guitar-driven debut.
Tug of War, through indie label 604 Records,
spawning two singles that cracked the Canadian
top 40. She evolved to shiny pop with “Call Me
Maybe,” which arrived on an EP in Canada
in 2011. After Justin Bieber heard and tweeted
about the song in 2012, his manager Scooter
Braun signed her to his School Boy imprint
and Interscope, and helped push the tune to
global success.

But even with such a dominant hit leading
the way, parent album Kiss waffled, selling only
292,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen Music

— a speck compared with the 7.6 million down-
loads that “Call Me Maybe” sold. “I was personally
sick of hearing my voice on the radio,” says Jepsen.
“I’m sure other people were too.”

Feeling the heat to follow “Maybe” with another
smash, she instead slid into glass slippers in the title
role in Broadway’s Cinderella in February 2014. “It
took my mind off of the pressure,” says Jepsen. “I
opened myself to this whole new world and was like,
‘Life is amazing! It keeps reinventing itself’ ”

In that spirit, after ending her stage run that June,
Jepsen returned to the studio to focus on E-Mo-Tion

with a new willingness to share her personal life.

She was romantically linked to musician Matthew
Korn a in 2012, a relationship almost entirely kept
from the public eye, and on the new album’s “LA
Hallucinations,” she blasts “Buzzfeed buzzards
and TMZ crows” for encroaching on her privacy
(a nod to false reports that she pawned a $25,000
purse and starred in a sex tape). But with her current
boyfriend, director David Kalani Larkins (Jack U’s

“I was personally
sick of hearing my
voice on the radio.”

—JEPSEN

“where Are U Now,” featuring Bieber), she made
their love a part of her art, traveling the world with
him to film a video for single “Run Away With Me.”

“I usually keep my cards close,” explains Jepsen,
who globe-trots with her beau in the clip, which
has amassed more than 3 million hits on YouTube.
“He helped me show this more authentic side he
gets to see. I never really felt free until I met him.”

Jepsen’s willingness to finally open up more
helped yield what is already being hailed as one
of the best pop albums of the year, one as sexy as

it is sweet. “Gimmie Love” is a plea for a romantic
interest to “touch me” over bubbling synths, while
the jangly “Let’s Get Lost” finds her “keeping
my fingers crossed” that a date won’t come to an
end. “There’s this intense sense of romance and
honesty,” says Batmanglij, who produced “Warm
Blood” and also has overseen songs for Char li XCX
and Jenny Lewis. “She is the person in her life and
in her songs. People connect to that.”

Lead single “I Really Like You” — easily the
most straight-ahead pop song on the album — only
reached No. 39 on the Hot 100. But Braun, who’s
also helping Bieber make a similar transition from
bubbly teeny-bop, says that matching the heights
of “Call Me Maybe” was never the plan. “We had
the biggest-selling single in the entire world last
time, and it didn’t drive the album as much as it
should have,” he says. “So this [time it’s] about

the album, and how good it is — that’s the most
important thing in the world.”

Another “Maybe” may never present itself, but
Jepsen doesn’t mind. Meeting expectations is no
longer on her agenda. “ ‘Call Me Maybe’ was such
a gift, but I don’t need that to happen again,” she
says. “I wanted to be brave and [record] music
that was really me rather than just putting out
what I thought would sell. I would’ve regretted
more not doing what I did — making a passion
project come to life.” O

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Danger

Mouse

Danger Mouse Does Adele

Overheard hears that Danger Mouse
(real name: Brian Joseph Burton), 38,
has locked down an imprint deal with
Columbia Records. The star producer's
label will be called 30th Century,
and he already is shoring up an initial roster,
says a source. Always one to multitask — his
collaborations have included Gnarls
Barkley with Cee Lo Green, Danger
Doom with rapper MF Doom, Broken
Bells with The Shins' James Mercer, -w .

and he's producing the Red Hot Chili
Peppers' new album — Danger Mouse Adele

has been working with Adele
on her hotly anticipated third
studio album. Whether his
production handiwork makes it
onto the project remains to be se
A rep for the producer insists the
ink's not dry on 30th Century, but a Sony
insider says it's being kept under the radar.

Derulo Shirtless— Again!

Back in May, Jason Derulo's friend The
Game told Billboard, "If there are women
around, J might take off his shirt in
church." Well, on Aug. 8, Derulo lived

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up to his rep when he got bare-chested
for his performance of "Want to Want
Me" during Hamptons Live atthe
summer estate of former hedge fund
manager Julie Macklowe in
Sagaponack, N.Y. The show
raised $800,000 for VH I's Save
the Music Foundation, and
reality personality Bethenny
Frankel and Donald Trump's
daughter Tiffany Trump, 22,
were among those admiring
Derulo's ripped physique.

Got gossip? Send to tips@billboard.com.

OA. A

A year ago, everyone was worried about
Mac Miller. In May 2014, a few months
after splitting from Rostrum Records, the
hometown indie that helped make him a
star, the 23-year-old Pittsburgh rapper self-released
the mixtape Faces, which chronicled his depression
and how "a drug habit like Philip Hoffman will probably
put me in a coffin," mentioning cocaine, codeine
cough syrup and even angel dust. It was a disquieting
turn for a rapper with an amazing highlight reel after
just a few years in music. His carefree 2012 debut.

Blue Slide Park, became the first independently
distributed album to topthe Billboard 200 in 17 years.
He appeared on Ariana Grande's 2013 breakout
single, "The Way"; had a hilariously weird reality
show, MTV2's Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family,
and beefed with Donald Trump before it became
passe (in 2013, the current presidential candidate,
who the rapper named a single after, called him an
"ungrateful dog" on Twitter). But on a recent August
day in New York, Miller seems downrightgiddy.

He's playing musicfrom his decidedly sunnier new
album. Good A. M., the resultof a reported $10 million
deal he signed with Warner Bros, last October. He
has new management. The Clancys (Odd Future,
Solange),and a new home base in Brooklyn's Dumbo
neighborhood, where he moved from Los Angeles
just days prior with his on-again, off-again girlfriend
of seven years. Miller insists he's in a better place. "I'm
just being a human being again," he says. "I'm finally
having fun again. Fun — there's nothing wrong that."

This album Is a radical departure from Faces — It’s
brighter and happier. Why the change of mood?

Faces was, in short, super depressing, and I'm not
as depressed anymore. Making music when you're
depressed is great therapy, but I wanted this album to
be in a different headspace.

How Is your mind-set, and your life overall,
different now?

I go outside and live a little bit
more. I touch people more.

Before, I was super-insular
all the time,just staying in a
room by myself, and it's so
easy to paintthis horrible
picture of life when you're
not giving yourself a chance
to live it. I was too worried
about the legacy that I would
leave behind — how I would
be remembered if I died. That
was my whole thing. Like, you
never know, man, so I've got to
make sure I make all this music so when I die there's
albums and albums. But now. I'm going to make sure I
do some shit in life, too.

Were you worried about dying?

Yeah. I was doing a lot of drugs around that
time, which is another difference now: I'm not
doing as many drugs. It just eats at your mind,
doing drugs every single day, every second. It's
rough on your body. That was the plan with Faces:
[Closing song] "Grand Finale" was supposed to
be the last song I made on earth. I don't feel that
way as much anymore.

Are you healthier now? Are you sober?

Yeah, definitely way healthier — I mean, compared
to then. I still smoke cigarettes. I'm not completely
sober, but I'm way better than I was at that point. I was
afraid of what my life had become. But once you just
breathe and relax, you come to terms with it. This is my
life, I enjoy it, and it's OK that I enjoy it. It's OK that I'm
young and rich. Let's have fun. You've got to look in the
mirror and tell yourself to stop being a little bitch: "OK,
dude, you're 23 and this isyourf— ing life. Go outthere
and do it, stop hiding," because that was me before.
Great music came from it, but I'd rather be in the place
I'm at now. I listened to Faces, and it's a great project
because it's so raw, but every single song is about coke,
drugs. Shout out to The Clancys — that has been one
of their main focuses: my health. I'm not 100 percent
clean, but I'm not a piece of shit anymore. I can look in
the mirror and be like, "I look OK."

You just moved in with your girifriend. Do you think
iiving with her wiii heip keep you on a cieaner path?

Me on my own is a wild motherf— er, man. I just moved
in yesterday, and I hope I haven't been too wild already.
But who knows what the weekend will hold.

What made you want to move to New York?

I still have a spot in L.A., so I'm going to be bicoastal
but based out of here. I just wanted a change. I love
L.A., but I'm from Pittsburgh and my whole childhood
I wanted to live in New York one day. It's nice to scale
back from the mansion life and get an apartment.

It's a lifestyle difference. You can't be as wild in an
apartment because you have neighbors. You can't go
on three-day binges, because by day two you're f— ing
freaking out because there's someone in the hallway,
like "F— , f— , f— ! Xanax, now\"

You said you’re around people more now — that’s
certainly easier in New York.

I get lost in the sea of people
here, which I like. It's hard
for me to hide because I'm a
short white dude with sagging
pants and a bunch of tattoos
who occasionally wears
jewelry. But here you can
throw on the hoodie and hang
out. I've spent my days here
so far working — and I f— ing
love nothing more than doing
work. I haven't had anything to
promote in two years, because
we didn't do anything for
Faces — we did zero press,
we didn'ttour. My mom did more press than mefor
Faces. I don't know if that's because they were scared
to put me in front of the camera, but now I'm excited.
I'd forgotten this is what I do for a living. I'm having a
good time again. It's cool to have fun. You don't have
to be sad to be cool.

Another good thing about New York Is that you’ll
be closer to your favorite person, Donald Trump.
Are you going to vote for him?

Not unless he apologizes for all those mean things he
said about me. But if he can sell me another million
singles, bro. I'd appreciate it. O

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The Aerosmith frontman, in a
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own account after he accidentally
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"Kendrick Lamar
sings about LSD and
he's cool. I do it and
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The singer, speaking about
sexist double standards in
the music industry, during an
interview with Marie Claire.

"Make some noise
for my baby father!"

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The rapper, on boyfriend and
tourmate Meek Mill, during a show
in Burgettstown, Pa., spurring
unfounded pregnancy rumors.

"Considering the
end of my rap career
left me 200k in debt
I would say making
music was a bad
decision for me."

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The "Gucci Gucci" MC,
in a since-deleted tweet.

"I don't want to get
complacent," says
Boogie, one of Los Angeles'
hottest new MCs.

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Long before rapper Boogie blew upon
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worried about his grades, shipped him off to church
boarding school, where he fell in love with gospel music
— and gangs. "The church was in the middle of a crazy
neighborhood," says Boogie, born Anthony Dixson. "As
crazy as it sounds, church is why I started gangbanging."
I3333H3 Two years ago, he met his manager, Clayton
Blaha, co-founder of Skrillex's OWSLA label, who pushed
him from the streets to the studio, to record 2014's Thirst
48 and this past spring's The Reach. The latter spawned

"Oh My," which has racked up almost 1 million clicks on
YouTube. "I've been working at my craft for so long," says
Boogie, "I would've been surprised if people didn't like it."

Bridging the gap between rap and electro.
Boogie has been praised by Skrillex on Twitter and
collaborated with SBTRKT, writing rhymes in his mind on
account of being "damn near legally blind" in one eye.

New pals like Kendrick Lamar cameo on his
Instagram, but Boogie is focused on recording new
music, not celebrity: "If I'm not getting better. I'm not
working hard enough. I don't wantto get complacent in
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What sparked the idea to include music?

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fying element. I was in my daughters’ playroom
doing a book and record of “It’s a Small World,”
and it hit me that there should be a soundtrack.

The latest trend in coffee-table books? Photographer Mills I never realized that, Sam! So interesting.

Sam Jones adds a vinyl LP to his newest one, Some Where Else Jones I’d like to say i came up with it on my own,
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the record’s essence, Jones — whose catalog of work
spans from Omega’s recent watch campaign with
George Clooney to a Foo Fighters music video
— traveled through parts of the American South
that have remained unaffected by corporate sprawl.

Though Petty ultimately chose a portrait of the band for his
album, Jones’ leftover photos were the catalyst for five more
road trips that became Some Where Else, a 152-page book
(Beware Doll Press) that will arrive Sept. 29 and includes a
vinyl LP scored by guitarist-producer Blake Mills, 28.

A day after performing at the Newport Folk Festival, Mills
hopped on a call with Jones and Billboard to chat about the
duo’s self- described passion project.

Each book includes a vinyl LP
and digital download card.

Why the decision to work with Mills?

Jones I didn’t even think of anybody else, to
tell you the truth. I love his music — I felt like
he could do something that fit.

The album starts with the track **Sunday
Bam” and ends with “Sunday 8 pm ”

Mills I borrowed the idea of a Middle Eastern
raga: songs that are meant for the morning,
and songs that are meant for the evening. There’s a melody
that introduces you to the environment, and then it kind of
returns and bookends the experience.

The record definitely forces the reader to slow down.
Jones It’s something I really thought about. If we could’ve
included a tumbler with scotch, I would have! (Laughs.) O

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Why they're cool "They have a gorgeous flow that translates beautifully in
performances and adds a little drama onstage," says costume designer Nicolas Bru,
who crafted a kimono bodysuit for Fergie.

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As the supercharged —
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living members of
recount their wild ride from
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WHEN KENDRICK LAMAR ARRIVES THIS

Friday evening at a cavernous photo studio in the
flatlands of industrial Hollywood, he’s 30 minutes
early. And the occasion has been nearly 25 years in
the making: Lamar, 28, is here to interview the four
living members of N.W.A for their first magazine
cover together since Ice Cube went solo in 1991
and the group collapsed into a famously bitter
feud. Eazy-E died in 1995, at 31. But today, Lamar
meets with four men who defined his hometown of
Compton, Calif, as a cradle of politically engaged,
uncompromisingly hardcore hip-hop. With a
modest demeanor that suggests nothing of his
status as rap’s leading visionary and an entourage
numbering just two associates and a publicist, he
seems genuinely humbled to be here. When the
group arrives, he is quick to pay his respects: first to
Dr. Dre, then Ice Cube, then DJ Yella and MC Ren.
They all share warm smiles and hugs.

“Ain’t nobody we’d rather have do this
interview,” says Cube, 46.

“Have you seen the movie?” asks Dre, 50.

“Not yet,” answers Lamar. “Didn’t want
to go to a preview and see it in a privileged
setting. Would rather wait for it to come to the
neighborhood and see it with everyone else. That
way it’ll mean the most to me.”

The movie is Straight Outta Compton,
which on Aug. 14 emerges from 13 years in
development purgatory. Universal ultimately
green-lit the project with a budget of $29
million; a screenwriter, Jonathan Herman; and a
director, E. Gary Gray, all orchestrated with close
oversight by Cube and Dre. (Cube is played by
his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., 24.) The result is a
hard-hitting narrative replete with the convictio
and turmoil that typified N.W.A in its heyday.

That heyday kicked off in 1988 — the same
year Lamar turned 1 — with the release of the
movie’s namesake album. No one had yet
seen how Los Angeles could contribute to the
simmering rap culture. And Compton, a gang
stronghold just south of Watts, held no place in
the American imagination.

N.W.A — N— az With Attitude — formed two
years earlier, when rapper O’Shea “Ice Cube”
Jackson and DJ-producer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young
began working with Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, who
had used his drug-dealing profits to launch a label.
DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby) and MC Ren (Lorenzo
Jerald Patterson) cemented the final lineup.

Their debut release is certified double-platinum
by the RIAA; “E— Tha Police” has sold nearly
350,000 downloads since Nielsen Music began
digital tracking in 2003. N.W.A communicated the
desperation of the black underclass — and ignited
controversy virtually unrivaled in the history
of pop, drawing in the EBI and Tipper Gore’s
Parents Music Resource Center.

“N.W.A did a lot more than entertain. They told
the truth,” says Lamar. And as Dre explains, “If
N.W.A had done it softer, it wouldn’t have gotten
the attention. It wouldn’t have worked.” Cube
tells Billboard that he believes police brutality
remains “the same” today as it did in the late
’80s and early ’90s. (The Los Angeles riots are
an important motif in the movie’s second half.)
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are the worst bullies that we have to deal with,” he
says. Asked about Sam DuBose, who was fatally
shot July 19 by a University of Cincinnati officer
now charged with murder. Cube says, “This kind of
stuff seems like it don’t happen to white guys.”

By the end of 1989, Cube had split from N.W.A
over Eazy-E and manager Jerry Heller’s hoarding
of the group’s earnings, setting off a conflict that
climaxed with his famously obscene 1991 diss
track “No Vaseline.” That year he also launched
his acting career with Boyz N the Hood; today he’s
a leading Hollywood star (22 Jump Street) and
producer {Friday, Ride Along, in which he also
starred). N.W.A fully dissolved when Dre left to
start Death Row Records with Suge Knight, and
sold, according to Nielsen Music, 5.7 million copies
of his 1992 G-funk classic The Chronic. Now, of
course, he’s one of music’s richest moguls, after
selling Beats, the headphone and streaming com-
pany he co-founded, to Apple in 2014. (On Aug. 7,
he released Compton — an album inspired by the
new movie, featuring guests including Cube,

Lamar and many others. Read the review on page
45.) Yella, 47, is making beats again after 12 years
as a porn producer, and Ren, 46, has continued as
a solo act (Cube joined him on a track in 2014). The
five former members were on the verge of recon-
ciliation when Eazy-E died of AIDS.

In 2011, Dre designated Lamar “the new king of
the West Coast.” The rapper infuses the politics

of N.W.A with an analysis of his own emotional
conflicts as a black artist seeking to maintain san-
ity in 21st-century America. It’s appropriate that
the main figure pushing hip-hop forward today
would be present to see the members of N.W.A
reunited and talking, as Dre says, “like we just saw
each other yesterday.” Tucked into the confer-
ence room with Dre, Cube, Ren and Yella, Lamar
speaks so softly that the men must lean in to hear
him. The conversation ranges from early days in
the studio with Eazy-E, the eternal “bullshit” of
the music business and how N.W.A made South
Park (and much more) possible. -david ritz

rm tripping right now. Man, l*m bugging. So
bear with me ... When did you first know you
were more than iocai stars?

Dr. Dre When I saw Axl Rose wearing an N.W.A
cap in one of his videos!

How did N.W.A change the history of music?
Ice Cube We not only changed music, we changed
pop culture all over the world. We did that by
making it all right for artists to be themselves. You
no longer had to be squeaky clean. We opened the
floodgates for artists who wanted to work on this
side, artists who wanted to be raw.

Dr. Dre And not worry about being on the radio.

Ice Cube Right. There were no other examples
of artists not doing it the square way. We became

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Outta Compton.

‘N.W.A GAVE
VOICE TO
THE VOICELESS'

LAMAR PAYS
TRIBUTE TO
HIS COMPTON
HEROES

It's atrip when I think back and remember the
first time I saw these guys. I was 5. It was a video,
a party scene, when suddenly this guy wearing
a hat with his hair curled underneath comes
busting through the set. That was Eazy-E doing
"Eazy-Duz-lt." At that very moment, I realized
this music represented where I was from. I
looked over to my left and saw that my cousin
was wearing the same kind of outfit as Eazy.

Eazy was a superhero, but a superhero on the
ground, a superhero I could relate to. Suddenly
my pops, my uncles, everyone around me is
playing N.W.A records.

Seven or eight years later, when I come into
my teens, I rediscover N.W.A because now I'm
on the streets. I'm seeing how law enforcement
is impacting my community. I'm seeing the
influence of gang culture, and I'm realizing that
N.W.A did a lot more than merely entertain. They
told the truth. They tapped into kids in the streets
who never had anything or anyone speak up for
them. N.W.A gave voice to the voiceless. So now
they become different kinds of heroes to me —
heroes carrying messages breaking through to
the wider world, heroes not only with big hearts,
but probing, intelligent minds.

I studied them closely. I saw Dre as the master-
mind behind the music; Cube the mastermind
behind the pen; Yella on the boards beautifully
complementing Dre's vision; Ren also crazy with
the pen; and Eazy the frontman, the cat with the
most charisma, the gift of gab, the energy to draw
people in. It was the perfect cast of characters.

I'd be lying if I said what I'm creating today is all
me. It isn't. It's an act of God. I do believe that, for
all its challenges, my upbringing in Compton was
a sacred blessing. The streets we ran, the air we

"The streets we ran,
the air we breathed
— everything about
Compton had been
creatively conditioned
by N.W.A," says
Lamar. From left:
Cube, Dre, Lamar,

Ren and Yella.

breathed — everything about
Compton had been creatively
conditioned by N.W.A I got
to absorb it all. Recently
someone told me about
the Italian Renaissance in
Florence where young artists
were lucky enough to work
in the studios of Leonardo da
Vinci and Michelangelo. Well,

Compton was my Florence.

That's the kind of favor I had
following in the shadow of
creative giants like Dre, Cube,

Ren and Yella.

To be real with you, I look at myself as someone
who's deeply conflicted. The way I was raised makes
up half of who I am. The second half — the vulnerable

The cover of Lamar's 2012 debut. Good Kid,
M.a.a.d. City, shows him as a child in Compton
with two of his uncles (left) and his grandfather.

artist curious about the world
beyond Compton — is often
at war with the first half.

But because of N.W.A, who
showed me that an artist can
be whoever he wants to be,

I don't have to resolve the
conflict. I can live with it. I can
be honest about it. I can put
that conflict in my songs. I can
open up my heart and letthe
world look inside. And I can
do all that because back when
I was still an infant crawling
" around my mama's house,
five cats from Compton had the courage to stand
tall and represent our community with courage,
honesty and artistic brilliance. —As told to David Ritz

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36 BILLBOARD I AUGUST 22, 2015

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examples for not only musicians, but for shows
like South Park, even the reality shows where
they’re bleeping out words. We started that on
the radio — bleeping out words — but the rawness
wasn’t in the world until N.W.A said it was OK
for you to be yourself There’s the world before
N.W.A, and the world after.

How do you think your music changed
the way the worid viewed our cuiture and
our community?

Ice Cube Unless you come from Compton, it’s
not a world you’re privy to. Our music let you visit
Compton from a safe distance.

Dr. Dre We gave the suburban kids an opportunity
to get up close.

Ice Cube Now you care. You heard what’s going
on in the hood, and you’re interested. Now
Compton means something to you. Now you pay
attention. We were able to shed light on some of
the bullshit that was going down. We presented it
in a way that you could digest, comprehend and
sympathize with what we were going through.

Dr. Dre If we had done it softer, it wouldn’t have
gotten the attention. It wouldn’t have worked.

DJ Yella The truth is that there wasn’t much
competition. There was the East and the West, but
there was really no West before us. We came in so
different, so real, that we were immediately heard.

Back then, what was your relationship with
A&R guys?

Ice Cube We didn’t have no A&R guys.

MC Ren It was like, “How many times can
we say ‘n— a’?”

Dr. Dre We’d say, “We need more ‘f— s’ on
this record.”

Did you have any doubts that you would be
accepted?

MC Ren I don’t think we really cared.

Dr. Dre We had no idea we’d blow up this major.
You see, every time we went into the studio we
were only trying to make tracks that would rock
our neighborhood. Our goal was to be local stars.
Ice Cube We didn’t think the world cared about
gang-banging and dope-dealing in L.A., Compton,
South Central, Long Beach and Watts. The hub of

hip-hop was the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem. We
were on the fringes. And that was OK with us.

Dr. Dre Imagine this: We made Straight Outta
Compton in six weeks, and that’s without working
weekends. Twenty-five years later, and here’s
a big-ass Hollywood movie carrying the same
name. It’s unbelievable.

What was the hardest part when you were
young and first coming to grips with the game?
DJ Yella Publishing! We didn’t know anything
about publishing. The first go-around we didn’t
make a nickel.

Dr. Dre We were just a bunch of creative guys who
got together and did something amazing but were
clueless about business.

Ice Cube Business is the most f— ed-up part. It’s
always awkward. It’s fun to make records, fun to
be in the studio with your homies, fun to get up
onstage. But the business part sucks. It’s always
some shit you ready to get rid of so you can go back
to being creative.

Dr. Dre It’s all about getting back in that studio.

The studio Is like a drug. IPs hard for
some people around me to understand
that the music Is all I think about. IPs
like Tm possessed.

Dr. Dre You can’t explain that feeling. It’s an
obsession. But it’s what makes you real.

As one of your offspring, anything 1 do
comes from what y*all have done before me.
rm curious to know how you feel about my
generation of artists.

MC Ren I like a few. I like you.

Dr. Dre You’re No. i on my list because of the care
and attention you bring to your tracks and the
precision you bring to your sound. There are a few
people out there I listen to and respect.

MC Ren Pusha T.

Dr. Dre Definitely Pusha T.

MC Ren I’m not saying this because you’re here,
Kendrick, but I like your song “Cut You Off.” I’ve
been listening to you for a minute.

Thank you. Now Tm wondering. Is there
anything my generation should build on and

bring back to the game?

Ice Cube That’s tricky, man. An artist has to
do it like he feels it — not because he should, or
someone else says he should. Hip-hop got too
focused on results and record sales. Sales have
nothing to do with the art you create in the studio.
Dr. Dre When we started out, it wasn’t for money.
It was for the love of music. You treat her right,
and she’ll treat you right. If your only aim is
money, your time will be limited.

DJ Yella We just went in there and did what
we wanted.

Y’all have gone through so many eras and
stages of success. How have you managed to
keep your sanity?

Dr. Dre The love of the music. It’s all about my
passion for this hip-hop thing. Can’t let anything
get in the way of that. It’s my first love.

Ice Cube When I was young, I made a vow to
myself that I wouldn’t let the game change me.
From the clubhouse to the courtroom, I was going
to be myself no matter what. Let the chips fall
where they may.

Dr. Dre It was an unspoken thing for all of us. We
were going to stay centered in ourselves.

MC Ren I’ve tried to put God first. Don’t take
everything so seriously. Let everything fall
wherever it’s going to fall.

DJ Yella I just stayed the same. Me and Dre go back
so far — a long 30 years — even before N.W.A. The
way we talk to each other now is the same way we
talked when we first met. No big heads, no ego stuff

How do you balance your professional
lifestyle with your family?

MC Ren I keep the two separate. There are too
many fakes in the game, and I try to keep my
family away from that. Coming up, we all went
through it — all the shady characters.

Ice Cube Family time is family time, and work is
work. As my kids got older, they wanted to be part
of the business, and I helped create an avenue. My
son, O’Shea Jr., is into acting. He plays me in the
film. My other son is into producing. It all comes
down to their talent and hunger.

Dr. Dre I protect my family and keep them away
from the bullshit, but at the same time they’re

CQMPTDN, CALIF.: BEYOND THE GANG LORE

Community landmarks in the city N.W.A helped put on the map

THE COMPTON CRICKET CLUB

The club's mission: curb
gang influence on local
youth and address homelessness
through the principles and
ethics of cricket.

MAYORAJABROWN

Described as a "West Coast, female
Cory Booker," Brown, 33, is the city's
youngest-ever mayor, promising
reform and revitalization: "I see it as
a new Brooklyn," she has said.

COMPTON FASHION CENTER

Lamar watched thefilming of
Dr. Dre and Tupac's "California Love"
video atthefamed, now-closed
swap meet when he wasS.Thisyear
he putitin hisclipfor"King Kunta."

RICHLAND FARMS

In 1888, Griffith Compton donated
this rural enclave to the cityfor
agriculture. Today, the area is a
hotbed for urban farming, with corn,
chickens, cows, goats and horses.

EAST RANCHO DOMINGUEZ PARK

The recreational facility (formerly
East Compton Park) features
the courts where Venus (above,
at 10) and Serena Williams learned
to play tennis. -NICK WILLIAMsj

AUGUST 22, 2015 I WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 37

supportive of what I do. They understand how
much I love this music, and they push and
inspire me.

Eazy-E. What was that relationship like?

MC Ren Cool. Just a cool brother.

DJ Yella Ahead of his time.

Ice Cube Straight visionary.

Dr. Dre He took that street knowledge and
brought it over to this thing. Super-smart cat.

MC Ren In the early interviews, Eazy was calling
us an all-star group, and this before anyone even
knew us. But he knew before we knew.

Ice Cube Eazy’s thing was, “I want the music
hard, hard, hard.” He wanted the rough
hardcore shit that couldn’t be comprised.

What was the energy like in the studio?

Dr. Dre The energy was crazy. Eree. Eun.

Eazy’s paying for it, and we’re just sitting
there creating.

Ice Cube With every character in the
neighborhood dropping by. That was
the fun part.

You ever bump heads creatively?

Dr. Dre All the time. Argued night and day. But
always out of mutual respect. Always out of a
desire to get the best. And always settled with a
cool compromise.

Boiling it all down, what do you see as
N.W.A’s legacy?

Ice Cube World’s most dangerous group — a
group that made it all right for artists to be
totally themselves.

Dr. Dre A legacy of inspiration, because we came
from nothing.

DJ Yella Dirt nothing.

Ice Cube A legacy that says that although we
were living in a destructive neighborhood, we
were able to do something constructive.

“WEU SAY,

‘WE NEED
MORE “F-
□N THIS
RECORD.’ ”

-DR. DRE

Seems as if today y’all have the same bond
you had when you started out.

Ice Cube We have a bond that you can’t buy or
manufacture. We look at each other and know what
we went through to get here. The obstacles. The
censors. C. Delores Tucker. Tipper Gore. The EBI.

Man, we were tangling with some of the biggest
power entities out there. And still we didn’t crack.

MC Ren We only got stronger. Now our hope is that
this movie makes some young people go out and do
what we did — something new, something fresh.

Dr. Dre The inspiration we excite in others isn’t just
about music. It’s about all of life. Keep pushing.

Keep cracking. Stay strong. O

REVIVING N.W.A - WITH RELEVANCE

Straight Outta Compton couldn't come at a better time. Ore's new album? Only 16 years overdue

Straight Outta Compton's most
impressive achievement might be its
most subtle. The innately cinematic
soundtrack, consistently impressive
performances and rap-nerd fan
service make itthe first great hip-
hop biopic. Butthefilm — in which
the 1992 Los Angeles riots serve as
a crucial backdrop — also captures
America's uneasy present in a way
that's not so different from how N.W.A
told the story of Compton, Calif., in
the late '80s and early '90s. "Ferguson
[Mo.] happened while we were
shooting the riot scenes," director F.

Top: Hawkins (left) as Dr. Dre and
Jackson as Ice Cube in Straight Outta
Compton. Bottom: Hawkins.

Gary Gray tells Billboard. But "all the
stuff that you see in the movie, we
developed a lot of those ideas and
scenes years ago, before these things
became headlines. When it started to
manifest in the news, it was almost
coincidental." Says Ice Cube, who
co-produced the movie: "I've been
honing my producing skills to get to
this moment."

Nearly as momentous: Dr. Dre's
decision to record and release his first
album in 16 years. Compton features
artists ranging from Kendrick Lamar
to Eminem to Snoop Dogg. Dre
announced the well-received album
less than a week ahead of its Aug. 7
release on his Beats 1 radio show. The

Pharmacy, saying, "I felt myself going
to the studio and being so inspired
by the movie that I started recording
an album." (Fie plansto use the
record's royalties to fund a new arts
and entertainment facility located in
Compton.)

The question hovering over all
this new N.W.A-inspired creative
output: Will some combination of the
group's four living members, brought
together for this cover story, actually
reunite for a rumored tour? (Dre sat
out of a June 27 performance in Los
Angeles, N.W.A's first in 15 years.)
Perhaps the crew will decide there's
enough of the past that has lasted
into the present. -erika ramirez

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high-fiving each other.” The New Zealand-born former BBC Radio i DJ talks to Billboard about the
highlights and missteps of setting the tone for the ambitious venture.

WhaUs your core philosophy when It comes to
programming?

I have two quotes up on my wall: One is mine,
“Quality and consistency creates the addiction.” We
want people to come back to Beats i because it has
awakened something in them and they want to hear
more. The other quote came from Jimmy [lovine] and
is the station’s mantra: “Don’t be boring.”

Beats 1 is supposed to be formatless, but there
do seem to be parameters to what*s played. How
would you define the Beats 1 sound?

The personality of the station is developing over
time. We started with a selection of
records. That came down to four or
five of us going, “What’s popping?”

Then you ask around about the artist,
do a bit of due diligence. After the first
week, it was really exciting to hear
how it all fit together, but also at times
it was jarring. For instance, we would
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slow. You’re immediately losing the
impact you’ve gained from the previous
song. So we made some changes. We
also noticed in the first week people
listened for really long amounts of time, which meant
songs got tired quickly, so we revised our rotations.
And we’re working on a replay service and we want to
get full on-demand ready.

How long have you known Dre?

I’d never met him until I started having conversations
with Jimmy and Trent [Reznor] about coming to Los
Angeles. I was out here on Grammy weekend, and
there was a meeting at Jimmy’s house. That was the
moment where we laid out, initially at least, what we
were hoping to achieve with Beats i. It was a double
whammy, because I was in the same room as Jimmy
and [Apple senior vp Internet software and services]
Eddy Cue and [vp iTunes content] Robert Kondrk,
who I was meeting for the first time, and Trent. I’m
trying to concentrate on saying the right things —
and at the same time I’m having these out-of-body
experiences, like, “Dr. Dre,/—!”

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Sirius stations,
to get my
head around
American
radio.”

There’s a preponderance of electronic music,
edgy rock and hip-hop on Beats 1. Are there set
genres you’re pursuing?

No, not really. We’ve played country music, Mexican
house music. South American EDM and German
hip-hop. I’ve never been a fan of, “We’ve got to get
22 percent of rock, 17 percent of R&B; where’s our 16
percent of hip-hop and our 9 percent of country?” If
you do it that way, you’re not basing it on the merit of
the music. You’re basing it on some kind of obligation.

Besides Beats 1, what radio
have you listened to since
arriving In the United States?

I listened to nothing but
American radio when I came here
— from terrestrial to SiriusXM. I
listened to tons of Sirius stations,
just to get my head around the
pacing and the feel of American
radio. I spent two weeks gorging
on Pearl Jam Radio. In New
Zealand, Pearl Jam is kind of a
rite of passage. After about a week I realized if I don’t
switch now, I’m going to end up destroying my love of
this band. I definitely kicked up Real 92.3 [KRRL-EM];
I wanted to hear what hip-hop sounded like in Los
Angeles. I listened to KIIS-EM, and I listened to
Power 106 [KPWR]. I went across the board, man.

It has taught me what I love about American radio,
and it also taught me what we need to avoid, being a
global radio station.

How do you like living In Los Angeles?

I spent a long time living in London, and I love the
energy and the subliminal anxiety that London
provided me. L.A. is very vehicle-driven. But I’m
starting to enjoy that. I’m turning West Coast, slowly
but surely.

How about top 40 pop?

The other day I heard the new 5 Seconds of Summer
record, and I was like, “Could I play that on my show?”
It was really strange. My whole perception shifted,
because I had never played 5 Seconds of Summer
before; they went straight to Radio 1 daytime and
never really crossed my path. Then I heard this song,
and it just sounds like SoCal pop-punk. Cool.

What have been some of the highlights of the first
five weeks of Beats 1?

There’s huge excitement in the building around
Dr. Dre and Compton. I grew up listening to his work.
He has been a huge influence to me.

How will Apple Music work If you get all of the
components to click?

What we’re working toward is this one place where
people can go to [the] “Eor You” [feature] and be
fed these wonderful handmade playlists according
to their tastes, go to Beats 1 and have a shared
listening experience and then go to “Connect” and
get close to the artists. The whole thing should work
symbiotically. Also, we’re a broadcasting platform
on a music service, so when people hear something
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gateway drug for Apple’s $9.99-a-month
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acquisition of Beats Electronics in 2014 and
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Radio, Beats 1 revolves around a stable of
chatty, enthusiastic DJs led by BBC Radio 1
alumnus and music trendsetter Zane Lowe
(see story, page 40), and supplemented by
artists such as Drake, St. Vincent, Elton
John, Queens of the Stone Age frontman
Josh Homme and even Beats co-founder
Dr. Dre. The effect, amplified by social
media, is that old-fashioned sensation
of many people tuning in at once — a
communal experience in a digital realm
where personal customization is the norm.

Apple certainly isn’t the first to humanize
online radio, just as it wasn’t the first to
invent the MP3 player, but if the roughly
$700 billion company can create as much
excitement about Beats 1 as it has over
iPhones, it could popularize digital radio
in a way that would directly challenge
the format’s largest entities. Pandora and
SiriusXM. (Although the latter is commonly
tagged as satellite radio, it charges a
separate fee for its online streaming service,
which offers exclusive programming.)

“The brilliant thing about Beats 1 is that it
manages to project a very non-mainstream
vibe when it is in fact under the umbrella of
a very mainstream company,” says Bridget
Herrmann, Midwest radio promotion
manager for Crush Music (Weezer, Eall Out

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APPLE DIDN’T INVENT HUMAN-CURATED RADIO, BUT IF
ZANE LOWE AND DR. DRE MAKE IT AS ESSENTIAL AS THE
IPHONE, PANDORA AND SIRIUSXM WILL FEEL THE HEAT

RUCE WARREN, PROGRAM
director for the University
of Pennsylvania’s musically
adventurous public-radio station
WXPN, says he’s “loving Beats
1,” Apple’s 5-week-old digital

radio station. But, he adds, he doesn’t
understand the media’s fascination with
the service’s human-curated, DJ-hosted

format. “There are a lot of cool radio
stations around the world that are doing
that on any given day,” he says. “It’s like,
‘Wake the f— up, hipsters!’ ”

The idea may be essentially as old as
commercial radio itself, which began in
the 1920s, but as the centerpiece of Apple’s
latest gambit to evolve as music consumers
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the show for more than 10 years,
plays the choTcest DIY rock'n'rcjJI.

Genome Project curates music using a cadre
of analysts who classify songs by as many as
450 different musical attributes.

Pandora is designed to be a personalized
experience as opposed to a social one,
facilitated by its listeners’ nearly 60
billion “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”
responses to songs. There are also no DJs
talking over the music. “We try to avoid too
much personality on the service; we want
an individual to feel like it’s theirs,” says
Westergren. “Our ethos is fundamentally
less about tastemaking — ‘this [DJ] is
smarter than you.’ We shy away from that.”

Other rivals similarly dismiss human
curation as unique to Beats 1. “We have
believed in the human approach from
the very beginning and have now built a
national music platform with more than 30
million subscribers in North America,” says
Steve Blatter, head of music programming
for SiriusXM, which carries 175 -plus
channels. “Curation is only an entry point
and is fast becoming a commodity. Even my
4-year-old curates his own playlists.”

Owen Grover, senior vp/GM for
iHeartMedia’s digital radio platform
iHeartRadio, which counts more than
2,000 stations and 70 million registered

Westergren

Blatter

Holden

“Curation is fast becoming a
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—STEVE BLATTER, SIRIUSXM

Boy, Sia, Ashley Monroe). “And in spite of
Apple being that very mainstream company,
it has maintained its persona of the hip, cool
brand by being innovators in its field. Beats

1 gives off the same vibe because, as far
as digital radio goes, it stands alone at the
moment in what it’s doing with music, guest
DJs, interviews and overall format.”

It is already building a reputation as a
destination for exclusive music premieres
and breaking news. In late July, Drake
premiered three new songs on his OVO
Sound show including “Charged Up,” a
response to friend-turned-rival rapper Meek
Mill’s accusations that he doesn’t write
his own rhymes. Then, at the beginning
of August, Dr. Dre demonstrated one way
that Beats 1 will funnel customers to Apple
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on his show The Pharmacy that he would
be releasing his first album in 15 years,
Compton^ in conjunction with the new N.W.A
biopic Straight Outta Compton. The album is
available exclusively on Apple Music.

Beats 1 enters the market at a time of
growth for digital broadcasting. Although
terrestrial radio still dwarfs its online
equivalent — according to Nielsen Audio,

93 percent of U.S. adults listened to AM or
FM at least once a week in June — the gap is
closing. Between 2000 and 2015, the weekly
U.S. reach of online radio has grown from

2 percent of the U.S. population age 12 and
older to 44 percent, according to Edison
Research and Triton Digital. That number
rises to 69 percent among 12- to 24-year-
olds. From 2013 to 2014, streaming revenue
also jumped from 21 percent to 27 percent
of total retail music sales, which was nearly
$7 billion in 2014, according to the RIAA.
The organization also reports U.S. paid
streaming subscriptions more than tripled
from 1.8 million in 2011 to 7.7 million in 2014.

The recent reveal by Apple senior vp
Internet software and services Eddy Cue
that 11 million people have signed up for a
free three-month trial of its new streaming
service signals a promising start. But
Pandora, which boasts more than 79 million
active monthly U.S. users, downplays the
idea of Beats 1 as a threat. “That kind of
curation has been around forever,” says
Pandora co-founder/CEO Tim Westergren,
who points out that Pandora’s Music

users, contends that the company formerly
known as Clear Channel is digital radio’s
original curator. “I’d argue that our human-
led approach highly influenced Beats 1,” he
says. His assertion is challenged by Slacker
CEO Duncan Orrell-Jones, who insists
that “no one else” besides his online radio
company was blending “great curated music
and personality” prior to Apple’s entry.
(Apple executive Jimmy lovine and Apple
Music senior director Ian Rogers declined to
comment for this story.)

From there, digital audio purveyors’
approaches to the medium vary. Spotify,
with more than 75 million active users,
continues to tout human- curated “lean-
back” features — in which the listener only

needs to click on a playlist or type in an artist
or genre — like its just-launched Discover
Weekly custom playlists. Fellow on- demand
services Tidal and Google Play Music rely on
the human touch as well, albeit sans live DJs.

Last September, Rdio foreshadowed
Beats 1 by adding a free online-radio
component — that uses algorithms and
human curation but not DJs — to its on-
demand service, and on Aug. 12, it rolled out
digital feeds for almost 500 Cumulus Media
live-broadcast stations. Apple, meanwhile,
reportedly has secured licensing deals with
labels that grant the tech giant permission to
establish up to five additional digital stations
without having to renegotiate.

Whether Beats 1 becomes Apple’s next
Ping — the flop social networking service
supplanted by Apple Music’s Connect — or
a chic HBO to SiriusXM ’s Comcast will
depend not only on listenership but on the
station’s clout with labels. And there are
early indications that Lowe and company
are selling records.

While label executives say Beats 1 is still
finding its place within the Apple ecosystem
and record promoters are still figuring out
the best way to plug their product there,
when Lowe spotlighted “Boys in the Street,”
New York singer-songwriter Greg Holden’s
poignant song about a father’s troubled
relationship with his gay son, as a “Beats
1 World Record,” weekly sales of the title
jumped from 150 units to more than 600,
according to Warner Bros. Records.

In other good news, these same sources
say Beats 1 and Apple Music so far have
not accelerated the decline of iTunes
downloads, a widespread fear among
polled label executives. (U.S. download
sales reportedly fell 11 percent in 2014,
according to Nielsen Music.)

“Beats 1 hopefully is going to be a new
way not just to drive sales, but to break
artists,” says Crush’s Herrmann, who adds
that after listening to the station for the
first time, she bought three songs by artists
she’d never heard. If Beats 1 can spur more
transactions like that with a fraction of
the 800 million credit cards Apple has on
file, there’s no ruling out the possibility of
Beats 2 — or Beats 100. Q

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Dr. Dre’s Oscar-Worthy New Album

NOT SO LONG AGO, RAPPERS EQUATED
their albums, songs, studio sessions, even
their partying with “making a movie,” as
if their life moments were epic, big-screen
fare. But none — save perhaps Kanye West’s
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — has ever
truly matched their Technicolor aspirations
as well as Compton^ billed as Dr. Dre’s third
studio album, and his first in i6 years.

Compton is the musical movie inspired
by a real movie — the replacement of
Dre’s long- delayed Detox album he was
reportedly motivated to make by his
participation in the N.W.A biopic Straight
Outta Compton. From the subtitle {A

Soundtrack by Dr. Dre) to the small overture
on the album’s “Intro,” which precedes
a narrator chronicling the titular city’s
fall from suburban dream to war zone,
Compton announces itself as a cinematic
event. For those who grew up with Dr. Dre,
it’s like the rush of watching a new Star
Wars trailer: grandeur mixed with nostalgia
and cutting-edge tech, familiar faces and
new, old plotlines refreshed for 2015.

On “Talk About It,” North Carolina’s
King Mez, one of the album’s handful of
new Dre co-signs, rhymes, “I’m the black
Eminem, I’m the humbler 50, I’m D.O.C.

— who do it better?” Like everything

about Dre during the past three decades,
Compton is an addition to the highlight reel
that relies heavily on the highlights that
preceded it, making it a project both bur-
dened and supported by its own mythology
— “I remember selling instrumentals off
a beeper,” rhymes Dre with character-
istic self-importance on the same song,
over industrial-strength instrumentation
that starts and stops with trap drum rolls
and explosive 808s. “Millionaire before
the headphones or the speakers/I was
getting money before the Internet/Still got
Eminem checks I ain’t open yet.”

It’s an epic boast, the kind that hip-hop

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was made for, even if it is, like many of
the album’s lyrics, a retread of a well-worn
story. It sometimes seems as if Dre has
run out of new things to say, and there are
many underwhelming vocal performances.
Perhaps due to his known love for frequent
punch-ins, Dre often sounds awkward and
unnatural. The album’s new voices (there

For those who grew
up with Dr. Dre,
it’s like the rush of
watching a new
Star Wars trailer.

are i8 featured vocalists) are largely anony-
mous and strangely non-specific. Ice Cube
and Snoop Dogg return as co-stars, but it’s
not the triumphant reunion it should be:
They’re almost unrecognizable. Snoop’s
delivery on “One Shot One Kill” is unchar-
acteristically vicious; over the future-funk of
“Satisfiction,” his delivery is oddly truncated.
Ice Cube’s vocals on “Issues” are overlaid to
the point that it’s impossible to rap along.

But it’s like critiquing the acting in a Michael
Bay movie — because look at those explosions!
Here, it’s the unbridled majesty of the sonics.
Though Dre co-produces only half of the
album’s tracks, he’s credited with leading the
mix on all, and every sound is meticulously
maximized. “Genocide,” featuring low end that
rumbles and a ferocious Kendrick Lamar (who
provides most of the album’s standout verses),
is the kind of music that almost justifies the
existence of $300 headphones. At the end of
“Issues,” birds chirp, sirens blare and guns pop
— all blending into the other but still standing
out distinctly, panning from ear to ear.

“Would you look over Picasso’s shoulder
and tell him about his brush strokes?” asks
Dre on “Deep Water,” a masterwork filled
with fractured voices and aquatic metaphors.

It doesn’t matter that only three of the 18
guest stars are actually from Compton, or
that the other 15 come off as a jumble of
random characters. It doesn’t matter that
the album’s opening promises it will say
something significant about the CPT, but
never delivers. Dre has the most bulletproof
reputation in hip-hop. The kind that turns
his origins with the electro -romance group
World Class Wreckin’ Cru into a youthful
footnote, forgives his mediocre post-Death
Row/pre-Eminem release Dr. Dre Presents: The
Aftermath, forgets the big-budget false starts
from Detox and glosses over his instances of
misogyny (which is still on display here). The
truth is, no one in hip-hop makes music that
sounds this good — music that powers through
all noticeable shortcomings. Despite its flaws,
Compton is still one of the most engaging
listening experiences of the year. -kris ex

Luke Grows Behind The Grin

NO COUNTRY SUPERSTAR
is more eager to be liked than
Luke Bryan. He’s goofy and
game in the role of party-
starter, famous for hamming
it up with average-guy dance
moves (and the snug jeans to
accentuate them) when he
sings his country bangers live.
Bryan has released seven self-
explanatory Spring Break EPs, the last of them
in March. On the cover art for that project, and
in most official photos of the 39-year-old, he’s
flashing a broad grin. He rarely comes off like he’s
taking himself more seriously than he should.

Eor these and other reasons, Bryan is the
biggest thing going in mainstream country in
2015. Ahead of fifth studio album Kill the Lights,
he seemed to reassure fans that he’d keep the
good times rolling. He chose “Kick the Dust
Up,” with its decelerated dance groove, as the
first single, which echoed “That’s My Kind of
Night,” the blockbuster hit from his last album.
Crash My Party. And he has been telling inter-
viewers that now, as ever, pleasing fans matters
far more to him than impressing buzzkill
critics. But the fact that Kill the Lights features a
pensive, black-and-white cover shot — the rare
photo in which he’s not smiling even a little — is
a hint: He isn’t simply going about his business-
as-usual fun on this album.

The flirtatious poses Bryan strikes in many of

these 13 songs, nearly half of which he co-wrote,
are subtly yet significantly different from the
youthful, fancy-free flings of his recording past.
Storylines present adult entanglements: a dance
of emotional dominance in the glissading “Razor
Blade”; vows of lifelong devotion in the theatri-
cally intimate ballad “To the Moon and Back,” a
duet with Little Big Town’s dusky-voiced Karen
Eairchild that would feel more sensual if it weren’t
so impatiently phrased. Bryan is convincing play-
ing a guy who’s kicking himself for assuming he’d
have endless chances to patch things up with a
woman in “Just Over.” And he’s never come closer
to smooth loverman than on “Strip It Down,” an
R&B -textured, country slow jam about taking
time to tenderly rekindle faded romance. On
relaxed songs like that and “Love It Gone,” Bryan
proves he’s more of a singer than he’s often cred-
ited for, his glottal delivery supple and expressive.

But the album doesn’t lack his usual arena-scale
moments; besides “Kick the Dust Up,” there’s the
title track (a disco-fled come-on) and “Move,” a
cartoonish Southern rock number about being
turned on by a regional transplant who’s gone
native. But even “Way Way Back,” an otherwise
unremarkable, loop-propelled cut with a big hook,
adds a narrative wrinkle, referring to a deeper
history between the two lovebirds making for the
“no-name road” to get it on like they used to. With
this album, Bryan suggests that he may be able to
have it both ways: stirring deeper sentiments even
as he sets off massive parties. -jewly might

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Kill the Lights
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ROBIN THICKE FEATURING
NICKIMINAJ

“BACK TOGETHER”

INTERSCOPE

Thicke's comeback tour contin-
ues with the Max Martin-helmed
"Back Together." Though lyrics
like "You're still the best that I've
ever had" uncomfortably recall
2014's Paula (a musical apology
to his ex-wife), a disco beat and
on-point Minaj rap gear it toward
the dancefloor and away from the
tissue box. -NATALIE WEINER

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RITA ORA FEATURING
CHRIS BROWN

“BODY ON ME”

ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

Ora has yet to earn her stripes as a
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single "Body on Me" isn't her ticket
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enjoyable, with Ora and Brown
trading vocal come-ons over a
strobing backbeatand memorable
chorus. -STEVEN J. HOROWITZ

M ACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS
FEATURING ED SHEERAN

“GROWING UP (SLOAN E’S SONG)”

MACKLEMORELLC

Following Kanye West's "Only One,"
2015 has its second love-note from
MO to child: Macklemore and Lewis'
"Growing Up," their first new music
since 2012's smash The Heist. Both
songs step too far across the sweet/
saccharine divide, but "Growing Up"
is saved by a great Sheeran hook,
helpfully breaking up Macklemore's
rambling sing-raps. —ALEX GALE

HAILEESTEINFELD

“LOVE MYSELF”

REPUBLIC

Oscar nominee. Pitch Perfect 2
star, T- Swift #squad member —
Steinfeld, 18, is an early achiever.
Up next? Pop singer, with debut
"Love Myself," a self-praising
anthem that sounds as if Charli
XCX rewrote Kendrick Lamar's
"i." Built for scream-alongs,
the tune is catchy but generic
alt-pop, with more bombast
than heart. -JOE LYNCH

From left:
O'Kelly, Ronald
and Rudolph
Isley circa 1962.

FOR A GROUP THAT CHARTED
more than 70 singles during six
decades, The Isley Brothers are
hard to get a handle on. Were
they the hell-raising rockers
of “Twist and Shout”? The
bedroom-eyed smoothies of
“Don’t Say Goodnight”? The
militant funk band of “Fight the
Power”? The gospel-folk of “Love
the One You’re With”? The hits
alone tell a bafflingly fragmented
story. This mammoth 23-disc set
returns them to the context of the band’s impressive
evolution and shifting internal dynamics.

The first decade mentioned in the set’s title is
represented only by the Isleys’ sole RCA album,
1959 ’s Shout!, and a collection of early- ’60s singles
on which the then-unknown Jimi Hendrix was their
guitarist (a spell on Motown is omitted). This box’s
story really begins in 1969, when the vocal trio of
Ronald, Rudolph and O’ Kelly Isley brought in their
teen brother Ernie, became a tough funk band and
quickly scored a string of hits, beginning with “It’s
Your Thing,” released on their own T-Neck label.

Another brother, bassist Marvin, and keyboardist
brother-in-law Chris Jasper joined shortly after.
Ernie, a Hendrix disciple, nudged the group toward
its next identity — soulful rock — landing another
smash with the guitar-drenched “That Lady.” As
of 1975 ’s double-platinum The Heat Is On, The Isley
Brothers played everything themselves, and were
writing all their own songs again: half ferocious
dance music, half lascivious slow jams.

The last few albums collected here had Jasper
emerging as a singer and arranger. After one more
platinum triumph (the potent cheese of 1983’s
Between the Sheets) the sextet split in half, with the
younger members spinning off as Isley-Jasper-Isley,
and T-Neck closed down. The box’s liner notes are
a bit scant, but it’s full of treats even for aficionados:
recordings by side projects (like 1969 ’s psych-rock
one-off “Tune On, Turn In, Drop Out,” credited
to The Brothers Three), single mixes and Wild in
Woodstock, an unreleased live-in-the-studio set
from 1980 with Ronald’s falsetto hovering like a
wasp and Ernie elegantly shredding. Hearing all
this music together makes the wild variation in
the Isleys’ style more understandable: They were
always just ahead of the curve. -douglas wolk

THE ISLEY
BROTHERS

The RCA
Victor & T-Neck
Album Masters
(1959-1983)
Legacy

UNCLE LUKE; HOW TO
MAKE HISTORY

Since the 1980s, 2 Live Crew's Luther
Campbell (aka Uncle Luke) has been one of
hip-hop's mostoutspoken figures, fighting
censorship all the way to the Supreme Court,
helping pioneer Southern rap and even
running for mayor in his native Miami. In new
memoir The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth,
Justice and Liberty City {gubWsUedi Aug. 5 by
HarperCollins),the rap vet explains howto
leave a mark.

STUDY THE PAST

"Early on, I got into black history — H. Rap
Brown, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X. It made it
easier when people attacked me; it was the
same thing they went through."

KNOW YOUR WORTH — EVEN IF THEY DON’T

"I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of music. I pretty
much started the first label in the South.
Nobody understood at the time. I was on [a
tour] bus with Fresh Prince, Kool Moe Dee
and Russell Simmons, and I had to tell them,
'These major labels got you choked.' When I
broke the numbers down, they couldn't be-
lieve it. I changed the
face of black music
right there. I'll forever
be blackballed in
this game, because I
f— ed it up for people
who want it to be a
slave trade."

FIND UNLIKELY ALLIES

"Bruce Springsteen and Sinead O'Connor
both came from someplace totally different,
but they were the first ones to [defend 2 Live
Crew], They understood everything we were
fighting for. Guys in hip-hop? They were just
chilling because we wasn't from New York."

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS (AND THE FUTURE’S)

"I was a freedom fighter for rap. Tipper Gore
was trying to crush the industry. I fought
for free speech so Lil Wayne and everybody
could say what they want." -jeff rosenthal

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Fat Wreck Chords 25th Anniversary

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BY GARY GRAFF

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW
much Fat Wreck Chords has grown
during its first 25 years, just look at its
office space.

“Fat Mike” Burkett had been
frontman for punk band NOFX for
two years when he and his former wife
Erin Kelly-Burkett
started the label

Punk partners:

m the kitchen of patMikeand

their one-bedroom Kelly-Burkett

apartment in San
Francisco’s Mission
District. She recalls
with a laugh, “You
couldn’t cook — not
that I could cook,
anyway — because
it was filled with
product and orders.’

Today, the label,
which releases
music from 30
acts, is run out of a
7,ooo-square-foot facility in an office
park south of the Mission District. The
office atmosphere can be as frenetic
as the punk rock in which Fat Wreck
Chords specializes. Every other
Friday, the label turns its ground-
floor warehouse into a record store,
offering free beer to shoppers.

“We have bands play,” says
Fat Mike, 48. “It’s this f— ing cool
community that comes together every
other week.”

Mention punk rock, and Fat Wreck
Chords is one of the first labels that
fans will cite, a source of albums
by top bands in the scene including
NOFX, Me First & The Gimme
Gimmes, Lagwagon, Leftover Jake,
Descendents, MxPx, Anti-Flag,
Against Me, Rancid, Rise Against
and Propagandhi.

“Fat Wreck Chords has inspired
fans and musicians, and pissed off
parents for 25 years,” says Kevin
Lyman, promoter of the annual Vans
Warped Tour, which always features
the label’s bands. “Oh, how time
flies,” adds Lyman. “That’s why
Mike dyes his hair green — it would
be gray otherwise.”

Kelly-Burkett, 46, calls the company
“something we started as a hobby,
mostly because we wanted to put out
NOFX records.” The couple were both
still attending San Francisco State
University; Fat Mike studying social
science and human sexuality, Kelly-
Burkett majoring in
creative writing and
working in public
relations.

Confident in the
market for punk, he
and Kelly-Burkett
took out a $20,000
loan with help
from his father and
established their
own vision for the
label.

From the outset.
Fat Wreck Chords
signed bands, with
rare exception, to
one-album deals, and never more
than two at a time. And some, says
Fat Mike, never even had contracts,
just handshakes — if that. “We’ve had
lots of bands leave to go to majors
and then come back,” he says. “Every
band says, ‘You’re the only label that
didn’t rip us off.’ ”

Fat Wreck Chords has remained
prolific: It released 31 albums in
2014, and 20 are on tap through
Oct. 2, including the latest Fat Music
compilation and Live in a Dive concert
set. In 2003, the label released an
album to benefit animal rights group
PETA, and a favorite project of Fat
Mike’s were two Rock Against Bush
albums in 2004 with non-label punk
luminaries like Green Day and Bad
Religion that opposed the re-election
of George W. Bush.

"When you find a band
that wants to make it,
steer clear from them,"
says FatMike, who toured
the United Kingdom with
his band NOFX in June.

NOFX

/ Heard They Suck Live!! is a 19-song
set cut live in Los Angeles in 1995.
(290,000 units sold, per Nielsen Music)

To mark Fat Wreck Chords’
anniversary, NOFX, Lagwagon and
other bands hit the road Aug. 6 for
a lo-city Fat Wrecked for 25 Years
Tour, while a festival in San Francisco
on Aug. 22 and 23 will feature label
bands past and present, preceded
by an Aug. 21 screening of NOFX’s
Backstage Passport 2 DVD. The label
also is cooperating with filmmaker
Shaun M. Colon, who’s working on
a documentary called A Fat Wrecks
followed by a Q&A with Fat Mike.

The company — which Fat Mike and
Kelly-Burkett still run together despite
divorcing earlier in 2015 after 22 years
of marriage (they have a lo-year-old
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MAX MARTIN
MOVES IN
AT NO. 1

The Swedish pop powerhouse
(real name: Martin Sandberg)
continues his hot streak on
the Billboard Hot 100 as he
collects another No. 1 thanks
to his work on The Weeknd's
"Can't Feel My Face," which he
co-wrote and co-produced.

"Can't Feel My Face" is
Martin's 21st No. 1 as a
songwriter. He remains in
third place among scribes with
the most No. Is in the Hot
lOO's 57-year history, behind
Paul McCartney (32) and
John Lennon (26) .

The song is also Martin's
19th No. 1 as a producer.
He's in second place, but
is quickly gaining on all-
time leading producer
George Martin, who has 23
chart-toppers .

Combined, Martin's 21 No. Is
have sold 78 million downloads
in the United States,
according to Nielsen Music.
His top seller is Katy Perry's
"Roar," with 6.1 million. — K.C.

52 BILLBOARD I AUGUST 22 , 2015

TOMORROW’S HITS

‘QUAN’ GOES WILD

Tennessee rapper @iHeartMemphis is
riding a viral dance craze as "Hit
the Quan" (Palm Tree) enters Hot R&B/
Hip-Hop Songs at No. 41. Download
sales trigger the arrival: The track
jumps by 26 percent to 21,000 sold,
according to Nielsen Music, fueled
by user-uploaded videos featuring
its audio on apps like Vine,

Dubsmash and Musical. ly. The hashtag
#HitTheQuanChallenge is aiding its
reach across social media.

MAKING WAVES

British indie rockers Circa Waves
near the Alternative airplay chart
with their breakthrough Virgin/
Capitol single "T-Shirt Weather."
The melodic, guitar-driven song
boasts notable support from
SiriusXM's Alt Nation channel, which
has played it 550-plus times since
adding it in late April. Earlier
that month, the band's debut album.
Young Chasers, peaked at No. 10 on
the Official U.K. Albums chart.

CHART BEAT

20 Years, 30 Hits Foo Fighters reach a milestone on the Alternative
airplay chart as "Outside" enters at No. 36. The song marks the Dave
Grohl-led band's 30th entry on the list, tying Green Day and Red Hot
Chili Peppers for the third-most appearances since the chart launched
on Sept. 10, 1988. U2 leads with 41, followed by Pearl Jam with 38.

Foo Fighters, whose first Alternative hit, "This Is a Call," reached No. 2
in August 1995, boast 10 No. Is on the chart (beginning with "Learn
to Fly" in 1999). Only the Chili Peppers (12) and Linkin Park (11) have
notched more leaders. — GARYTRUST

25%

THIS WEEK

AVANT'S

"SPECIAL"

AUDIENCE

3.3 MILLION

57%

THIS WEEK

TORI KELLY'S
"SHOULD'VE BEEN
US" SALES

22,000

25%

THIS WEEK

SAM FELDT'S
"SHOW ME LOVE"
STREAMS

1 MILLION

No Zayn, No Prob: ID’s
Record-Breaking Bow

The group's first new single as a quartet bounds in at No. 3 on the Billboard
Hot 100, the year's biggest debut and the band's best sales week yet

MARKET WATCH

A WEEKLY NATIONAL MUSIC SALES REPORT

1 Weekly Unit Sales I

ALBUMS

DIGITAL

ALBUMS*

TRACKS

This Week

3,753,000

1,599,000

17,537,000

Last Week

3,708,000

1,647,000

17,115,000

Change

1.2%

-2.9%

2.5%

BY KEITH CAULFIELD

DESPITE ITS TITLE, ONE DIRECTION’S NEW
single is far from a drag. The group, now a
quartet after Zayn Malik’s departure in March,
makes a giant splash on the Billboard Hot loo
with “Drag Me Down” zooming in at No. 3 —
the highest debut of 2015 (see page 1) and the
band’s best sales week ever for a song.

The guitar-driven track — iD’s fifth top 10
Hot 100 hit — is the lead single from the group’s
forthcoming fifth studio LP, due later this year
on Syco/Columbia. So far in 2015, only two
other singles have launched in the top 10 of the
Hot 100: Selena Gomez’s “Good for You,”
featuring ASAP Rocky (No. 9 on the July 11
list), and Maroon 5 ’s “Sugar” (No. 8, Jan. 31).

“Drag” races to its big debut thanks largely to
a whopping sales sum: 350,000 download sales
in its first week (ending Aug. 6, according to
Nielsen Music). The total surpasses the 341,000
logged with the arrival of iD’s “Live While
We’re Young” in the week ending Oct. 7, 2012.

“The reaction to ‘Drag Me Down’ has been
incredible,” One Direction’s N la 1 1 Horan tells
Billboard. “When we dropped the single we

knew we had a good song, but we didn’t expect
such a huge reaction. We definitely didn’t think
it would become the highest debut on the Hot
100 this year.”

The single is the group’s first since former
member Malik (who recently announced
his own solo record deal with RCA Records)
split, a fact that almost certainly helped
generate a large amount of interest in — and
sales of — “Drag Me Down.” The excitement
surrounding the song and the band’s slimmer
lineup (Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles
and Louis Tomlinson) bodes well for One
Direction’s upcoming album, which could
notch a fifth straight No. 1 debut on the
Billboard 200 chart for the act. However, in
the short term, watch for a significant — but
expected — drop-off in sales and overall Hot
100 points in the track’s second chart week,
as it will be difficult to sustain momentum
after such a big debut.

“Drag” also gives One Direction its third
No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart, following
“Live While We’re Young” and 2013 ’s “Best
Song Ever.” In terms of radio airplay, “Drag”
moves 37-26 on Mainstream Top 40 (up 128
percent in spins for the week ending Aug. 9)
after its first full week of availability. It also
bounds in at No. 12 on the Streaming Songs list
with 8.5 million domestic streams in the frame
ending Aug. 6 . 0

FAMILY AFFAIR

Trio Lucy Angel is percolating on
the Country Airplay chart with its
debut hit, "Crazy Too" (G-Force/

New Revolution), as the plucky track
bullets at No. 60. Comprising Kate
Anderton and her daughters Lindsay
and Emily, the act is featured on
AXS TV's docu-series Discovering
Lucy Angel and is making the
promotional rounds at country radio.

-AMAYA MENDIZABAL,
GARYTRUST and KEITH CAULFIELD

Lucy Angel

This Week Last Year 4,331,000

1,839,000

20,402,000

Change -13.3%

-13.1%

-14.0%

‘Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

Weekly Album Sales (Mill

ion Units)

■

^^^P2015

2014

3.8M

J F M A M J J

A S 0

N D J

YEAR-TO-DATE

Overall Unit Sales

2014

2015

CHANGE

Albums 142,134,000

137,165,000

-3.5%

Digital Tracks 695,336,000

629,666,000

-9.4%

Store Singles 1,475,000

2,013,000

36.5%

Album W/TEA* 211,667,600 200,131,600 -5.5%

‘Includes track-equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent to
one album sale.

Digital Track Sales

2014 X

2015

695.3 Million

629.7 Million

Sales by Album Format

74,073,000

67,122,000

-9.4%

Digital

63,014,000

63,205,000

0.3%

Vinyl

4,767,000

6,522,000

36.8%

Other

279,000

315,000

12.9%

1 Sales by Album Category 1

2014

2015

CHANGE

Current

69,451,000

64,475,000

-7.2%

Catalog

72,682,000

72,690,000

0.0%

Deep Catalog

59,615,000

60,379,000

1.3%

Qirrent Album Sales

2014

2015

69.5 Million

eTsMiluoI^l

Catalog Album Sales

2014

2015

72.7 Million

Nielsen Music counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release
(12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200,
however, remain as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of
catalog for titles out more than 36 months.

For week ending Aug. 6, 2015. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national '
sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen Music. uc

AUGUST 22, 2015 I WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 53

Billboard Artist 100

CM ITD

^1 CD
CO CM

X NO. 5

t' _ Led Zeppelin

iconiclkk band re-enters
the Artist 100 new peak, up by
758 percent in activity, as three of
its reissued classics enter the Top
^'Alburn Sales top 10: In Through the Out
Door (No. 3, 23,000 sold). Coda (No. 5,
21,000) and Presence (No. 6, 20,000).

2WKS.

LAST

THIS

PEAK WKS.0N

2WKS. LAST

THIS

PEAK WKS.0N

AGO

WEEK

ARTIST

IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL POS. CHART

AGO WEEK

WEEK

ARTIST

IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

POS. CHART

THEWEEKND

XO/REPUBLIC

DRAKE

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

TAYLOR SWIFT

BIG MACHINE/BMLG

ONE DIRECTION

SYCO/COLUMBIA

LED ZEPPELIN

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

PETTY WAP

RGF/300

EDSHEERAN

ATLANTIC/AG

OMI

LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

FUTURE

A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

MAROON 5

222/INTERSCOPE/IGA

RACHEL PLATTEN

SAM SMITH

FALL OUT BOY

SAM HUNT

MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN

LUKE BRYAN

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

SILENTO

BOLO/CAPITOL

JUSTIN BIEBER

SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM

ZAC BROWN BAND SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC

NICKI MINAJ

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

MEGHAN TRAINOR

WALK THE MOON

RCA

JASON DERULO

BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

MEEK MILL

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

□

TWENTY ONE PILOTS

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

RIHANNA

WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

HI OR HEY/CAPITOL

□

DEMI LOVATO

SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/HOLLYWOOD

SELENA GOMEZ

INTERSCOPE/IGA

WIZ KHALIFA

ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG

□

EMINEM WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

□

KENDRICK LAMAR TOPDAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

SHAWN MENDES

ISLAND

J. COLE DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

BRUNO MARS

ATLANTIC/AG

□

ERIC CHURCH

EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

54 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data

Data for week of 08.22.2015

2WKS.

AGO

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

ARTIST

IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

PEAK

POS.

WKS.0N

CHART

ANDYGRAMMER

S-CURVE

ARIANA GRANDE

REPUBLIC

□

JILL SCOTT

BLUES BABE/ATLANTIC/AG

CHARLIE PUTH

ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC/AG

BLAKE SHELTON

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

FIFTH HARMONY

SYCO/EPIC

JASON ALDEAN

BROKEN BOW/BBMG

CHRIS BROWN

RCA

KATY PERRY

CAPITOL

IMAGINE DRAGONS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

N£W

LIL DICKY

DAVID BURD/CMSN

DJ SNAKE

FUZION

KENNY CHESNEY

BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN

HOZIER

RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA

LITTLE BIG TOWN

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

RAE SREMMURD

EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA

BIG SEAN

G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

66 1

BEYONCE

PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA

J ■

S3 S9

56 60

SI 68

SO 5S

62 69

76 82

TOVE LO

ISLAND

ELLIEGOULDING

CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA

SIA

MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA

BRANTLEY GILBERT

VALORY/BMLG

TYRESE

VOLTRON RECORDZ

A$AP ROCKY

A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

THOMAS RHETT

VALORY/BMLG

PITBULL MR. 305/FAMOUS ARTIST/POLO GROUNDS/SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA

RICH HOMIEQUAN

RICH HOMIEZ/THINK IT’S A GAME

DAVID GUETTA

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

MARK RONSON

RCA

METALLICA

BLACKENED/WARNER BROS.

TREY SONGZ

SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG

KEITH URBAN

HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

MAJOR LAZER

MAD DECENT

KID INK

THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA

KIDZ BOP KIDS

RAZORS TIE

DACKJANIELS

MAD DECENT

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

2WKS.

AGO

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

ARTIST

IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

PEAK

POS.

WKS.0N

CHART

68 1

X AMBASSADORS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

RE-OffRV

RE^Y

RE-UlfRV

COLE SWINDELL

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

NEW

R. CITY

KEMOSABE/RCA

GEORGE EZRA

COLUMBIA

88 91

NICK JONAS

SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND

R[-OirRY

KANYE WEST

G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM

RE^TRY

KELLY CLARKSON

RI-ENTRV O
NEW ®
S4

JIDENNA

WONDALAND/EPIC

CHASE RICE

SAINT ASONIA

MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM

99 1 83^76 J BRETT ELDREDGE

ATLANTIC/WMN

FLO RIDA

POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG

Jy SKRILLEX

BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/AG

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

20 «s Q ALAN JACKSON

ACR/EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

MUMFORD&SONS

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

MICHAEL JACKSON

MJJ/EPIC

TORI KELLY

SCHOOLBOY/CAPITOL

DIPLO

ATLANTIC/WMN

!U MIGOS

QUALITY C0NTR0L/300/AG

MILEY CYRUS

RCA

PRINCE ROYCE

RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN

CHRIS JANSON

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

CALVIN HARRIS

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

"iil FRANKIE BALLARD

JOSS STONE

STONE’D/KOBALT

Than

*Kinda Hot*

Australian pop-punk
quartet 5 Seconds of
Summer (above) rebounds
back into the Billboard
Artist 100's top 40, zooming
42-26, up by 25 percent in
overall activity. New single
"She's Kinda Hot" drives its
climb, with social reaction
marking the group's
biggest Artist 100 points
contributor (41 percent); the
act jumps 8-5 on the Social
50 chart. Digital song sales
follow with 25 percent of
the group's Artist 100 sum,
with "Hot" hiking 35-23 on
Digital Songs (46,000 sold,
up 45 percent, according
to Nielsen Music) following
the Aug. 3 premiere of its
official video. 5SOS spent a
week at No. 1 on the Artist
100 dated Aug. 9, 2014
when its self-titled full-
length debut arrived at No. 1
on the Billboard 200.

Atop the Artist 100, The
Weeknd becomes just the
third act to spend at least
three weeks at No. 1 since
the chart launched in July
2014. Taylor Swift easily
leads with 31 frames on top,
while Sam Smith also has
led for three weeks. The
Weeknd earns the honor
concurrent with his first
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1,
"Can't Feel My Face" (see
page 1).

The Weeknd fends off a
surging Drake, who pushes
6-2 on the Artist 100, up by
91 percent in total activity.
He's fueled mostly by a
440 percent surge in digital
song sales, as four new
tracks of his debut on the
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
chart, totaling 236,000
downloads sold in the
week ending Aug. 6 (see
page 63). —Gary Trust

Data for week of 08.22.2015

Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 55

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CD
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1 LAST

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ARTIST CERTIFICATION
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WKS.ON

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A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

DS2

TAYLOR SWIFT A

BIG MACHINE/BMLG

1989

ED SHEERAN A

ATLANTIC/AG

JILL SCOTT

BLUES BABE/ATLANTIC/AG

Woman

SAM HUNT#

MCANASHVILLE/UMGN

Montevallo

1 MW

LIL DICKY

DAVID BURD/CMSN

Professional Rapper

TWENTY ONE PILOTS

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

Blurryface

•

LED ZEPPELIN In Through The Out Door

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

□

DRAKE If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

MEEK MILL Dreams Worth More Than Money

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

LED ZEPPELIN

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

Coda

LED ZEPPELIN

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

Presence

MEGHAN TRAINOR#

EPIC

Title

1 30

SAM SMITH A

CAPITOL

In The Lonely Hour

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DCD2/ISLAND

1 mt

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QUALITY C0NTR0L/300/AG

Yung Rich Nation

TYRESE

VOLTRON RECORDZ

Black Rose

HOZIER#

RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA

Hozier

ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDE

JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC

1 15

□

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SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far...

ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG

MAROON 5

222/INTERSCOPE/IGA

MAJOR LAZER

MAD DECENT

Peace Is The Mission

J. COLE • 2014 Forest Hills Drive

DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

ERIC CHURCH A

EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

The Outsiders

RACHEL PLATTEN

COLUMBIA

Fight Song(EP)

SHAWN MENDES

ISLAND

Handwritten

1 wot

SAINT ASONIA

RCA

Saint Asonia

NICKIMINAJ# ThePinkprint

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

LITTLE BIG TOWN

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Pain Killer

ALAN JACKSON

ACR/EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

Angels And Alcohol

BIG SEAN

G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

Dark Sky Paradise

1 NCW

JOSS STONE

STONE’D/KOBALT

Water For Your Soul

KIDZ BOP KIDS

RAZOR & TIE

Kidz Bop 29

WALK THE MOON

RCA

TALKING IS HARD

CHARLIE PUTH Some Type Of Love EP

ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC/AG

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE# Anything Goes

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

LAMB OF GOD

EPIC

VII: Sturm Und Drang

□

ANDY GRAMMER

S-CURVE

Magazines Or Novels

SOUNDTRACK#

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC

Fifty Shades Of Grey

SKRILLEX & DIPLO Skrillex And Dipio Present Jack U

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG

RAE SREMMURD

EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA

SremmLife

JASON ALDEAN ▲

BROKEN BOW/BBMG

Old Boots, New Dirt

FIFTH HARMONY

SYCO/EPIC

Reflection

KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly

TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

CHASE RICE Ignite The Night

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACK JANIELS

TAME IMPALA

MODULAR/INTERSCOPE/IGA

Currents

ONE DIRECTION A

SYCO/COLUMBIA

FOUR

50'

A$AP ROCKY AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

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LAST

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POS.

WKS.ON

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□

ELLE KING

RCA

Love Stuff

Hni

LIANNE LA HAVAS

NONESUCH/WARNER BROS.

Blood

JASON ISBELL Something More Than Free

SOUTHEASTERN/THIRTY TIGERS

BRANTLEY GILBERT#

VALORY/BMLG

Just As 1 Am

JASON DERULO

BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Everything Is 4

53^

SOUNDTRACK

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/AG

Furious 7

SIA

MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA

1000 Forms Of Fear

BREAKING BENJAMIN

HOLLYWOOD

Dark Before Dawn

X AMBASSADORS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

VHS

BUDDY GUY

SILVERTONE/RCA

Born To Play Guitar

60 1

KNUCKLE PUCK

RISE

Copacetic

LUKE BRYAN A

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Crash My Party

104

TORI KELLY

SCHOOLBOY/CAPITOL

Unbreakable Smile

MUMFORD&SONS

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

Wilder Mind

IIS

FOO FIGHTERS

ROSWELL/RCA

Greatest Hits

104

103

BLAKE SHELTON # BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

PRINCE ROYCE

SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA

Double Vision

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE How Big How Blue How Beautiful

REPUBLIC

BEA MILLER

SYCO/HOLLYWOOD

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BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS ^ Legend: The Best Of...

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PITBULL

MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

Globalization

IMAGINE DRAGONS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

Smoke + Mirrors

FLO RIDA

POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG

My House (EP)

MIGUEL

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Wildheart

TOVE LO Queen Of The Clouds

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ARIANA GRANDE A

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My Everything

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YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

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SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG

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CARRIE UNDERWOOD # Greatest Hits: Decade #1

19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

TWENTY ONE PILOTS

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

Vessel

KENNYCHESNEY A

BNA/SMN

Greatest Hits II

VARIOUS ARTISTS

SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME

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JAMES TAYLOR

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Before This World

SOUNDTRACK A Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol.l

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IMAGINE DRAGONS A

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

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153

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE A Here’S To The Good Times

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

140

DRAKE A

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

Take Care

127

LANA DEL REY A

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Born To Die

184

DAVID GUETTA Listen

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

GEORGE EZRA

COLUMBIA

Wanted On Voyage

104

EMINEM < 0 >

WEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME

The Eminem Show

227

109

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BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN

THEWEEKND A

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FLEETWOOD MAC A

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Greatest Hits

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141

MARK RONSON

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LAUREN DAIGLE

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Disney
On Top

The soundtrack to Disney
Channel's Descendants
debuts at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200, marking
the fourth soundtrack to
hit No. 1 in 2015. The Walt
Disney Records set starts
with 42,000 equivalent
album units earned in the
week ending Aug. 6.

Descendants is the
companion album to the TV
movie of the same name,
which premiered July 31 on
the network. According to
Disney, the music-driven
film earned 10.5 million
total viewers in its first four
days, and is the fourth-
most-watched cable TV
movie since 2007.

The arrival of Descendants
atop the chart occurred
during a very soft week for
both new album releases
and sales. The soundtrack's
overall 42,000 unit total is
the smallest weekly sum
for a No. 1 album since
the chart began ranking
titles by equivalent units
in December 2014. Further,
of its 42,000 start, just

30.000 were pure album
sales. (It also enters at No. 1
on the Top Album Sales
chart.) That's the lowest
sales figure for a No. 1
album on the Billboard
200, or Top Album Sales,
since Nielsen Music began
powering the charts'
rankings in 1991. It is far
smaller than the previous
low, when Amos Lee's
Mission Bell debuted at
No. 1 with a little more than

40.000 sold (week ending
Jan. 30,2011).

Descendants is a fairy
tale-inspired live-action film
about the children of some
of Disney's classic villains.
The movie was directed and
choreographed by Kenny
Ortega (who also helmed
the three High School
Musical films).

Descendants is the fourth
soundtrack to hit No. 1 on
the Billboard 200 in 2015,
following Empire, Furious 7
and Pitch Perfect 2.

—Keith Caulfield

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Doo-Wops & Hooligans

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AMYWINEHOUSE A

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Back To Black

130

ONE DIRECTION A

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Midnight Memories

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER • 5 Seconds Of Summer

HI OR HEY/CAPITOL

COLE SWINDELL

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

Cole Swindell

HILLSONG UNITED Empires

HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG

WE CAME AS ROMANS We Came As Romans

EQUAL VISION

JOURNEY^

COLUMBIA/LEGACY

Journey’s Greatest Hits

368

ISRAEL & NEW BREED Covered: Alive In Asia

RGM NEW BREED/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

DWIGHT YOAKAM # The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam

REPRISE NASHVILLE/RHINO

BETHEL MUSIC Without Words: Synesthesia

BETHEL/PLG

112

SOUNDTRACK

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Teen Beach 2

FALL OUT BOY

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Save Rock And Roll

120

TIM MCGRAW

CURB

35 Biggest Hits

ED SHEERAN A

ELEKTRA/AG

156

LEON BRIDGES

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Coming Home

KACEY MUSGRAVES

MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN

Pageant Material

EMINEM A Curtain Call: The Hits

SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

253

QUEEN A Greatest Hits 1 II & III: The Platinum Collection

HOLLYWOOD

JOSH GROBAN

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

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ASHLEY MONROE

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

The Blade

G-EAZY

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These Things Happen

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Master Of Puppets

LED ZEPPELIN A

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Mothership

209

BLAKE SHELTON A

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

Based On A True Story...

124

WARREN HAYNES FEAT. RAILROAD EARTH Ashes & Oust

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2PAC^ Greatest Hits

AMARU/DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE/UME

106

EMINEM A The Marshall Mathers LP 2

WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

ONEREPUBLIC A

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124

ADAM LAMBERT

WARNER BROS.

The Original High

MICHAEL JACKSON A Bad

MJJ/EPIC/LEGACY

125

BILLY JOEL A

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The Essential Billy Joel

TAYLOR SWIFT A

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121

INSANE CLOWN POSSE Marvelous Missing Link (Found)

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136

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233

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DR. DRE A

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Dr. Dre - 2001

123

CAM Welcome To Cam Country (EP)

ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

140

BEYONCE A

PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA

Beyonce

KARI JOBE

SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG

Majestic

VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’S What 1 Call Country, Volume 8

SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME

JOSH WILSON That Was Then, This Is Now

SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG

144

LUKE BRYAN A

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Tailgates & Tanlines^

201

TRAVIS TRITT The Very Best Of Travis Tritt

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/RHINO

124

LYNYRD SKYNYRD One More For The Fans

BLACKBIRD PRODUCTION PARTNERS/LOUD & PROUD

ECHOSMITH

WARNER BROS.

Talking Dreams

ZEDD

INTERSCOPE/IGA

True Colors

HOLLYWOOD

Sometime Last Night

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ASYLUM/ELEKTRA/RHINO

172

167

GREEN DAY A

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

American Idiot

112

GEORGE STRAIT

MCANASHVILLE/UME

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H5 1

KELSEA BALLERINI

BLACK RIVER

The First Time

OLD DOMINION

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

Old Dominion (EP)

155

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OF MONSTERS AND MEN Beneath The Skin

REPUBLIC

179

LUKE BRYAN Spring Break... Checkin’ Out

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

14B

SOUNDTRACK A

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Frozen

□

BRUNO MARS A

ATLANTIC/AG

Unorthodox Jukebox

132

L55

WIZ KHALIFA

ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG

Blacc Hollywood

IWT

JAMES BAY

REPUBLIC

Chaos And The Calm

157

KATY PERRY A

CAPITOL

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Back In Black

190

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DEF LEPPARD

MAILBOAT

Mirrorball: Live & More

151

GUNS N' ROSES A

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Greatest Hits

325

150

CALVIN HARRIS

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

Motion

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MIRANDA LAMBERT© Platinum

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

KRISTENE DIMARCO Mighty

JESUS CULTURE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG

169

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WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

199

GUNPLAY

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Living Legend

171

177

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MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

Sex Playlist

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL A Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits

FANTASY/CONCORD

240

165

ARCTIC MONKEYS©

DOMINO

100

171

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH©

PROSPECT PARK

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Born Sinner

160

LORDE A

LAVA/REPUBLIC

Pure Heroine

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RCA NASHVILLE/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP

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CAPITOL

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223

TAYLOR SWIFT A

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239

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164

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ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

NEEDTOBREATHE Rivers In The Wasteland

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CANAAN SMITH

MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN

Bronco

KID ROCK ^

TOP DOG/LAVA/ATLANTIC/AG

Devil Without A Cause

109

BtW

DAVE KOZ Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection

CONCORD

187

16? 1

TECH N9NE

STRANGE/RBC

Special Effects

1 KIDCUDI© Man On The Moon: The End Of Day 1

DREAM ON/G.O.O.D./REPUBLIC

DIERKS BENTLEY

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Riser

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KELLY CLARKSON

19/RCA

Piece By Piece

199

FRANK SINATRA Ultimate Sinatra

FRANK SINATRA ENTERPRISES/CAPITOL/UME

LADY ANTEBELLUM

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

747

BON JOVI ^

MERCURY/UME

Slippery When Wet

108

THOMAS RHETT

VALORY/BMLG

It Goes Like This

PINK FLOYD ^ The Dark Side Of The Moon

PARLOPHONE/RHINO

911

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CHILDISH GAMBINO

GLASSNOTE

Because The Internet

DR. DRE A

DEATH ROW/WIDEAWAKE

The Chronic

ONE DIRECTION A

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Up All Night

104

DARIUS RUCKER

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Southern Style

JOSS STONE

Wafer for
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Your ^oiil, starts at No. 34 v
12,000 units si ici also charts ne'
territory for the singer: It marks
h^r uehnt on Kennae Alhnms
'■■vith its No. 1 how.

I l ie vetoran artist ; 's 11th
chart entry on the [ iiu 200
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9,000 units). It also earns the six-
time G ra m i n y ,4vva rd i n n e r h i s
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Q&A

Migos

Your debut album, Yung
Rich Nation, enters Top
Album Sales at No. 11 and
the Billboard 200 at No.

17. How did recording it
differ from making your
many mixtapes?

Takeoff The process is
the same, but we're trying
to get every aspect and
angle. So we were going to
do trap for the gangsters,
do some club [records],
something for West Coast,
East Coast, up North, down
South. But we ain't going
to leave our window. Migos
are trendsetters.

The album has at least
two references to the
1992 movie Aiaddin.
What's with all the
Disney love?

Quavo We just compare
our lifestyle to movies so
you can relate to them.
When I say I bought a
carpet from Aladdin so I
could finesse and do magic,
that means I had to get me
a new whip, or I had to get
something in disguise to
work my magic, to finesse
the plug to get out of here.
Takeoff We used it in
reference so the kids can
know, too.

Migos' flow has been
co-opted in the past few
years. Do you notice other
rappers using your rhyme
patterns?

Takeoff They biting, trying
to bite the style. Everybody
biting ever since we made
"Versace." Y'all don't give us
credit. [Drake] bit the flow.
Quavo C'mon, Drizzy know
he bit the flow! "Versace,
Versace, Medusa head
on me like I'm Illuminati..."
Drizzy got on "Versace,"
right? My boy Drizzy Drake
got them bars from me. We
ain't tripping on boss.

—John Kennedy

CM ITD
to CM

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LED ZEPPELIN In Through The Out Door

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

LIL DICKY Professional Rapper

DAVID BURD/CMSN

LED ZEPPELIN Coda

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

LED ZEPPELIN Presence

SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

FUTURE DS2

A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

TAYLOR SWIFT A 1989

BIG MACHINE/BMLG

TWENTY ONE PILOTS Blurryface

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

TYRESE Black Rose

VOLTRON RECORDZ

MIGOS Yung Rich Nation

QUALITY CONTROL/300/AG

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SAINT ASONIA Saint Asonia

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SAM HUNT# Montevallo

MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN

ALAN JACKSON Angels And Alcohol

ACR/EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

JOSS STONE Water For Your Soul

STONE’D/KOBALT

KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 29

RAZORS TIE

LAMB OF GOD VII: Sturm Und Drang

EPIC

SOUNDTRACK Soutlipat Must From And Inspired ByThe Motion Picture

SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

MEGHAN TRAINOR# Title

EPIC

ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far...

ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG

ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDE

JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC

SAM SMITH A In The Lonely Hour

CAPITOL

JASON ISBELL Something More Than Free

SOUTHEASTERN/THIRTY TIGERS

HOZIER# Hozier

RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA

KNUCKLE PUCK Copacetic

RISE

LIANNE LA HAVAS Blood

NONESUCH/WARNER BROS.

BUDDY GUY Born To Play Guitar

SILVERTONE/RCA

ERIC CHURCH A The Outsiders

EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

DRAKE If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

TAME IMPALA Currents

MODULAR/INTERSCOPE/IGA

BREAKING BENJAMIN Dark Before Dawn

HOLLYWOOD

MEEK MILL Dreams Worth More Than Money

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 54

SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME

SOUNDTRACK A Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol.l

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LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Killer

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

JAMES TAYLOR Before This World

CONCORD

FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho

DCD2/ISLAND

CHASE RICE Ignite The Night

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACK JANIELS

J.COLE# 2014 Forest Hills Drive

DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

PRINCE ROYCE Double Vision

SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA

JASON ALDEAN A Old BootS, New Dirt

BROKEN BOW/BBMG

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE How Big How Blue How Beautiful

REPUBLIC

MUMFORD&SONS Wilder Mind

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

ELLE KING Love Stuff

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ISRAEL & NEW BREED Covered: Alive In Asia

RGM NEW BREED/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

WE CAME AS ROMANS We Came As Romans

EQUAL VISION

KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly

TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE# Anything Goes

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

JOSH GROBAN Stages

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

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Living Legend

HEW

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INFECTIOUS/BMG/VAGRANT

Momentary Masters

NEW

TEENAGE TIME KILLERS Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

RISE

NEW

ROY WOODS

OVO SOUND/WARNER BROS.

Exis(EP)

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KATAKLYSM

NUCLEAR BLAST

Of Gods And Ghosts

ALINA BARAZ & GALIMATIAS Urban Flora (EP)

ULTRA

GLASS ANIMALS

WOLF TONE/HARVEST

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WATKINS FAMILY HOUR

FAMILY HOUR/THIRTY TIGERS

Watkins Family Hour

CAM Welcome To Cam Country (EP)

ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

OLD DOMINION

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

Old Dominion (EP)

JOEY ALEXANDER

, MOTEMA

My Favorite Things

HEY VIOLET

HI OR HEY/CAPITOL

1 Can Feel It (EP)

HALSEY

ASTRALWERKS

Room 93 (EP)

MOONSHINE BANDITS Blacked Out

BACKROAD/AVERAGE JOES

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HUMAN HEART

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MICKEY GUYTON

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Mickey Guyton (EP)

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Candy (EP)

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SOUNDTRACK Teen Beach 2

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KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 28

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WALT DISNEY

KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 27

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Children’s Favorrtes: Volume L 30 Classic Tunes

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318

VARIOUS ARTISTS Disney Karaoke Series: Frozen (EP)

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KIDS CHOIR 51 Songs Kids Really Love To Sing + 24 Bonus Songs

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MUSIC FOR LITTLE PEOPLE/RHINO

395

VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’S What 1 Call Disney

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143

VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’S What 1 Call Disney 3

SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/WALT DISNEY

CEDARMONT KIDS 100 Sing-Along-Songs For Kids

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VARIOUS ARTISTS A Disney’S Greatest: Vol. 1

WALT DISNEY

607

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SOUNDTRACK Disney Junior: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

DISNEY JUNIOR/WALT DISNEY

DOVE CAMERON Liv And Maddie (Soundtrack)

WALT DISNEY

SOUNDTRACK Teen Beach Movie

WALT DISNEY

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WALT DISNEY

340

VARIOUS ARTISTS Disney Princess: The Ultimate Song Collection

WALT DISNEY

439

THE COUNTDOWN KIDS 50 Silly SongS

SONOMA

164

THE COUNTDOWN KIDS 50 Fun Songs For Kids

SONOMA

142

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Radio Disney Music Awards: Music From The 2015...

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Titus*
Tragedy
Is Tops

Rock band Titus
Andronicus collects its
first No. 1 on a national
Billboard chart as The
Most Lamentable Tragedy
charges 7-1 on Heatseekers
Albums. The set, the
group's fourth studio
release and its Merge
Records debut, vaults to
the top of the list in its
second chart week due to
its irregular release date of
Tuesday, July 28. It bowed
on the chart with just
three days' worth of sales
(July 28-30) with 2,000
copies sold, according to
Nielsen Music. Now, on the
new chart, it rises to No. 1
with 4,000 (up 97 percent)
as it tallies its first full week
at retail (July STAug. 6).

Merge announced The
Most Lamentable Tragedy's
release date in April and
stuck by the Tuesday street
date even when Friday
became the standard new
release day on July 10.

Titus Andronicus
previously visited
Heatseekers Albums in
2012 with Local Business
(No. 3 debut and peak)
and 201 0's The Monitor
(No. 7 debut and peak). XL
Recordings released both
projects. The band's debut
album, 2008's The Airing
of Grievances (also on XL),
did not dent any of the
Billboard charts.

Notably, 37 percent of the
new album's sales in the
week ending Aug. 6 were
driven by vinyl LPs (about
1,500 copies out of its total
4,000 for the week). In turn,
the set starts at No. 6 on
the Vinyl Albums chart.

Titus Andronicus kicks
off a U.S. tour Sept. 11 in
Philadelphia. The trek will
continue through Oct. 16
in Brooklyn before heading
to Europe for a string of
shows starting Nov. 5 in
London. —Keith Caulfield

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Ora’s
‘Body’
Takes
A Bow

On the Billboard + Twitter
Top Tracks chart, Rita Ora
(below) enters at No. 14
with "Body on Me," her duet
with Chris Brown.

Since the pair's sensual
jam arrived Aug. 7, the
official audio has collected
more than 2.3 million global
views on YouTube as of
Aug. 11.

"Body" is expected to
appear on the British
songstress' as-yet-untitled
sophomore album. Her
2012 debut. Ora, was never
released stateside.

Meanwhile, Robin
Thicke returns to Top
Tracks with "Back Together,"
which drives to a No. 22
bow. The R&B crooner taps
powerhouse players for
the tune, enlisting Nicki
Minaj for a guest verse and
Max Martin to produce.
"Together" is Thicke's first
single release following his
lukewarmly received album
Paula, which debuted and
peaked at No. 9 on the
Billboard 200 dated July 19,
2014 (but spent just five
weeks on the list).

Interest around
the singer's potential
resurgence sends his
Twitter mentions racing
to 16,700 for the week
ending Aug. 9, according to
Next Big Sound, a surge of
1,300 percent.

Another hitmaking
act also reappears:
Macklemore & Ryan
Lewis debut at No. 30
with "Growing Up
(Sloane's Song)," featuring
Ed Sheeran. The duo
unexpectedly released
the ode (the "Sloane" in
the title is the name of
Macklemore's newborn
daughter) as a free
download on Aug. 5, and
the official audio on
SoundCloud has registered
more than 1.4 million plays.

—Trevor Anderson

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THIS 1
WEEK 1

riTLE Artist

WKS. ON
CHART

^ DRAG ME DOWN One Direction 2 ;

SHE’S KINDA HOT 5 Seconds Of Summer

WILDEST DREAMS

Taylor Swift

22 K

“1

HIGH BY THE BEACH Lana Del Rey

BACK TO BACK Drake

WHAT DO YOU MEAN? Justin Bieber

DEVIL Super Junior

WORTH IT Fifth Harmony Feat. Kid Ink

COOL FOR THE SUMMER Demi LovatO

DIRTY WORK Austin Mahone

1 FEEL YOU Wonder Girls

BAD BLOOD Taylor Swift Feat. Kendrick Lamar

BLACK MAGIC Little Mix

BODY ON ME Rita Ora Feat. Chris Brown

CAN’T FEEL MY FACE The Weeknd

CHARGED UP Drake

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Calvin Harris & Disciples

GOOD FOR YOU Selena Gomez Feat. A$AP Rocky

PHOTOGRAPH Ed Sheeran

LEAN ON Major Lazer & DJ Snake Feat. MO

CALIFORNIA Jack & Jack

BACK TOGETHER Robin Thicke Feat. Nicki Minaj

FOR FREE? (INTERLUDE) Kendrick Lamar

90059 Jay Rock Feat. Lance Skiiiwalker

KILL THE LIGHTS Luke Bryan

SEE YOU AGAIN Wiz Khalifa Feat. Charlie Puth

FLASHLIGHT Jessie J

REMEMBER Apink

FIGHT SONG Rachel Flatten

GROWING UP (SLOANE’S SONG) MacklemoreSi Ryan Lewis Feat Ed Slieeran

MARVIN GAYE Charlie Puth Feat. Meghan Trainor

CONFUSED Kid Cudi

WATCH ME Silento

STITCHES Shawn Mendes

THE HILLS The Weeknd

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM CyHi The Prynce

LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding

AROUND THE WORLD Natalie La Rose Feat. Petty Wap

WRONG ONE Jack 8 l Jack

THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran

BAD INFINITE

SAY SO Wiz Khalifa

ALRIGHT Kendrick Lamar

TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap

HONEYMOON Lana Del Rey

ANACONDA Nicki Minaj

'CAUSE I’M A MAN Tame Impala

KNOW YOURSELF Drake

WANNA KNOW Meek Mill

PETAL Apink

Ufcogrd < * EMERGING ARTISTS™

LAST j
WEEK 1

1 THIS
WEEK

TITLE

Artist

WKS. ON
CHART

Inhere

Alessia Cara

1 10 MINUTES

Stormzy

J DON’T

Bryson Tiller

J THUGGIN’ Glasses Malone Feat. Kendrick Lamar

J PSYCHOTIC

Chris Miles

1 AIN’TNOBODY(LOVESMEBETTER) Felix Jaedn Feat Jasmine Thompson

1 DRAMA

Roy Wood$ Feat. Drake

J KEEP IT 100 Rich The Kid Feat. Fetty Wap

J DRIVE

Oh Wonder

1 HOLD MY HAND

Jess Glynne

1 LAGOZADERA Gente de Zona Feat. Marc Anthony

J SAY IT

Tory Lanez

1 gang

OG Maco

1 MY LOVE Majid Jordan Feat. Drake

DON’T WORRY

Madcon Feat. Ray Dalton

GOLD LIME

Glass Animals

DIELECTRIC

Fear Factory

DESSERT

Dawin

ENAMORATE

Dvicio

1 SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Hayden James I

1 DREAMSICLE

dumblonde

1 WHITE NOISE

PVRIS

1 BITTER BOY Appleby Feat. Anthony White

WAIT

ADORE

Jasmine Thompson

HANDS UP

Sam Sparro

FOR THE LOVE

GRiZ Feat. Talib Kweli

FIRE

PVRIS

J DON’T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF JessGlynne

1 WALK

Kwabs

1 BLIND MAN

SPZRKT

1 WHAT YOU DON’T DO Lianne La Havas

1 TAKE YOUR PLACE The Underachievers

1 THEM CHANGES

Thundercat

1 UNSTOPPABLE

Lianne La Havas

1 OPEN SEASON

Josef Salvat

J HEAVY Audio Push Feat. OG Maco

J LEMME FREAK

Lil Dicky

J DAYLIGHT Andrew Rayel Feat. Jonny Rose

1 SURFACE

Aero Chord

1 SHUT UP

Stormzy

J DEEP DOWN LOW Valentino Khan

1 WISH YOU WERE MINE Philip George

1 IMPOSSIBLE

LION BABE

J 2 HEADS

Coleman Hell

1 CLASSIC The Knocks Feat. Petty Wap & POWERS

J REALESTINTHECITY P Reign Feat Meek Mill &PARTYNEXTDOOR

RIGHT NOW

Ground Up

QUEEN

Perfume Genius

MIND RIGHT

TK N Cash

Data for week of 08.22.2015

Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for

Dr. Dre
Returns
To The
Social 50

After Dr. Dre (above)
released Compton on
Aug. 6 — his long-awaited
third studio album and first
in nearly 16 years — he
re-enters the Social 50 for
the first time since 2011.

He reappears at No. 35
with a 275 percent gain
in chart points, matching
his previous high (logged
on Jan. 1, 2011). The album
premiered on Apple Music's
Beats 1 the night of Aug. 6
and is exclusively available
through Apple Music and
iTunes for its first two
weeks of release.

Ore's Twitter account had
a 1,499 percent increase
in reactions in the week
ending Aug. 9, according
to Next Big Sound, also
adding more than 79,000
mentions on the platform.
Those who may have
"forgot about Dre" visited
his Wikipedia page, which
logged a 436 percent
increase in views for the
week.

Compton is heading for a
high debut on the Aug. 29
Billboard 200, where it will
likely bow at No. 2 behind
Luke Bryan's also-arriving
Kill the Lights. Compton
is Ore's first release since
m9's Dr. Dre -2001,
which re-enters the
Billboard 200 at No. 139.

Back on the Social
50, Zendaya matches
her peak, zooming 30-13
amid rumors that she may
be dating former One
Direction member Zayn
Malik. But that chatter was
silenced when Zendaya
tweeted Aug. 9 that they've
"literally NEVER met." She
adds more than 6 million
Instagram reactions (a
149 percent increase) and
passes 10 million total
followers on the platform,
adding 397,000 for the
week. —Emily White

complete chart data 59

SOCIAL SO™

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

ARTIST

IMPRINT/LABEL

WKS.ON

CHART

JUSTIN BIEBER

n|j| SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM

246

TAYLOR SWIFT

BIG MACHINE/BMLG

246

ARIANA GRANDE

REPUBLIC

142

NICKI MINAJ

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

245

MILEY CYRUS

RCA

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

HI OR HEY/CAPITOL

RIHANNA

WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION

ONE DIRECTION

SYCO/COLUMBIA

DRAKE

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

SHAWN MENDES

ISLAND

SELENA GOMEZ

INTERSCOPE/IGA

DEMI LOVATO

SAEEHOUSE/ISLAND/HOLLYWOOD

ZENDAYA

HOLLYWOOD

LUCY HALE

DMG NASHVILLE

MEEK MILL

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

KATY PERRY

CAPITOL

CHRIS BROWN

RCA

WIZ KHALIFA

ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG

LADY GAGA

STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA

ED SHEERAN

ATLANTIC/AG

SAM SMITH

CAPITOL

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

RCA

SNOOP DOGG

DOGGYSTYLE/COLUMBIA

235

195

174

221

244

236

246

219

233

244

215

212

THE VAMPS

ISLAND

SHAKIRA

SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA

244

BECKY G

KEMOSABE/RCA

DADDY YANKEE

EL CARTEL/CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE

FIFTH HARMONY

SYCO/EPIC

JENNIFER LOPEZ

CAPITOL

232

SKRILLEX

BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/AG

148

JESSIE J

LAVA/REPUBLIC

THE WEEKND

XO/REPUBLIC

MEGHAN TRAINOR

EPIC

DR. ORE

AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

RITA ORA

ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

BEYONCE

PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA

243

LANA DEL REY

POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA

MARTIN GARRIX

SCHOOLBOY/SPINNIN’/SILENT/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC

AUSTIN MAHONE

CHASE/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

108

JACOB WHITESIDES

BEA MILLER

SYCO/HOLLYWOOD

PRINCE ROYCE

RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN

DIPLO

MAD DECENT

TYGA

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

CALVIN HARRIS

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

TROYE SIVAN

CAPITOL

BRUNO MARS

ATLANTIC/AG

230

EMINEM

WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

232

ELLIEGOULDING

CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA

101

MAINSTREAM TOP 40

LAST THIS TITLE

WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

Artist WKS.ON
CHART

ool
o >

CAN’T FEEL MY FACE The Weeknd 9

XO/REPUBLIC

CHEERLEADER

LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

OMI

BAD BLOOD Taylor Swift Feat Kendrick Lamar

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

WORTH IT Fifth Harmony Feat Kid Ink

SYCO/EPIC

LEAN ON Major Lazer & DJ Snake Feat. MO

MAD DECENT

GOOD FOR YOU Selena Gomez Feat A$AP Rocky

INTERSCOPE

WHERE ARE U NOW Skrillex & Dipio With Justin Bieber

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC

FIGHT SONG Rachel Flatten

COLUMBIA

COOL FOR THE SUMMER Demi LovatO

SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC/HOLLYWOOD

HEY MAMA David Guetta Feat. Nicki Mina], Bebe Rexba & Afrojack

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON

RCA

PHOTOGRAPH Ed Sheeran

ATLANTIC

HONEY, I’M GOOD. Andy Crammer

S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD

UMA THURMAN Fall Out Boy

DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

SEE YOU AGAIN Wiz Khalifa Feat Charlie Puth

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/RRP

SHOULD’VE BEEN US

SCHOOLBOY/CAPITOL

Tori Kelly

BEAUTIFUL NOW Zedd Feat Jon Bellion

INTERSCOPE

SHE’S KINDA HOT 5 Seconds Of Summer

HI OR HEY/CAPITOL

WATCH ME

BOLO/CAPITOL

Silento

POST TO BE Omarion Feat. Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/RRP

CHEYENNE

BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Jason Derulo

I DON’T LIKE IT, I LOVE IT Flo Rida Feat Robin Tbicke & Verdine White

POE BOY/ATLANTIC

MARVIN GAVE Charlie Puth Feat Meghan Trainor

ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC

GHOST TOWN

WARNER BROS.

Adam Lambert

LOCKED AWAY R. City Feat Adam Levine 3

KEMOSABE/RCA

ADULT CONTEMPORARY™

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

TITLE

IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

Artist

WKS.ON

CHART

^ SHUT UP AND DANCE

WALK THE MOON

21 1 |

□

SUGAR

222/iNTERscoPE

Maroon 5

THINKING OUT LOUD

ATLANTIC

Ed Sheeran

LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE

STYLE

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

Taylor Swift

HONEY, I’M GOOD.

S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD

Andy Crammer

'fcfcl FIGHT SONG

COLUMBIA

Rachel Flatten

UPTOWN FUNKI Mark Ronson Feat Bruno Mars

RCA

HEARTBEAT SONG

19/RCA

Kelly Clarkson

LIPS AREMOVIN

EPIC

Meghan Trainor

□

BAD BLOOD

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

Taylor Swift

WANT TO WANT ME

BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Jason Derulo

TAKE YOUR TIME

MCA NASHVILLE/CAPITOL

Sam Hunt

SEE YOU AGAIN Wiz Khalifa Feat Charlie Puth

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/RRP

PHOTOGRAPH

ATLANTIC

Ed Sheeran

CHEERLEADER

LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

OMI

EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC

TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS Don Henley

PAST MASTERS HOLDINGS/CAPITOL

Ifi

BRIGHT

WARNER BROS.

Echosmith

LIKE 1 CAN

CAPITOL

Sam Smith

BUDAPEST

COLUMBIA

Ceorge Ezra

INVINCIBLE

19/RCA

Kelly Clarkson

CAN’T FEEL MY FACE

XO/REPUBLIC

The Weeknd

LIKE I’M GONNA LOSE YOU Meghan Trainor Feat John Legend

EPIC

TALKING BODY

ISLAND/REPUBLIC

Tove to

rHMIC™

TITLE Artist

IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

WKS.ON

CHART

CAN’T FEEL MY FACE The Weeknd

CHEERLEADER OMI

LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

WATCH ME Silento

BOLO/CAPITOL

LEAN ON Major Lazer & DJ Snake Feat. MO

MAD DECENT

MY WAY Petty Wap Feat. Monty

RGF/300

BAD BLOOD Taylor Swift Feat. Kendrick Lamar

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

BE REAL Kid Ink Feat. DeJ Loaf

THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA

CLASSIC MAN Jidenna Feat. Roman GianArthur

WONDALAND/EPIC

POST TO BE Omarion Feat. Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/RRP

FLEX (OOH OOH OOH) Rich Homie Quan

RICH HOMIEZ/THINK IT’S A GAME

"Rfcl THE HILLS The Wee'knd

XO/REPUBLIC

AROUND THE WORLD Natalie La Rose Feat. Fetty Wap

I.M.G./REPUBLIC

WHERE ARE U NOW Skrillex & DipIo With Justin Bieber

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC

GOOD THING Sage The Gemini Feat Nick Jonas

BLACK MONEY/EMPIRE RECORDINGS/REPUBLIC

HEY MAMA David Guetta Feat. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexba & Afrojack

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

ONE MAN UN CHANGE THE WORLD BigSean Feat. Kanye West& iobn Legend

G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

SEE YOU AGAIN Wiz Khalifa Feat Charlie Puth

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/RRP

ALL EYES ON YOU Meek Mill Feat. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge

INTERSCOPE

CHEYENNE Jason Derulo

BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

ABOUT YOU Trey Songz

SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC

B**** BETTER HAVE MY MONEY Rihanna

WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION

HOW MANY TIMES DJ Kbaled Feat. Chris Brown, til Wayne & Big Sean

WE THE BEST/RED ASSOCIATED LABELS

GOOD FOR YOU Selena Gomez Feat. A$AP Rocky

INTERSCOPE

NASTY FREESTYLE T-Wayne

WERUNIT/UNAUTHORIZED/300

ADULT TOP 40 ™

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

TITLE

IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

Artist

WKS.ON

CHART

■lil FIGHT SONG

COLUMBIA

Rachel Flatten

BAD BLOOD

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

Taylor Swift

PHOTOGRAPH

ATLANTIC

Ed Sheeran

SHUT UP AND DANCE

RCA

WALK THE MOON

SEE YOU AGAIN Wiz Khalifa Feat Charlie Puth

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/RRP

HONEY, I’M GOOD.

S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD

Andy Grammer

CAN’T FEEL MY FACE

XO/REPUBLIC

The Weeknd

Pf 9 fr CHEERLEADER OMI

I'MMI LOUDER than LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

UMA THURMAN

DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

Fall Out Boy

WANT TO WANT ME

BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Jason Derulo

INVINCIBLE

19/RCA

Kelly Clarkson

RENEGADES

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

X Ambassadors

Q.O

COOL FOR THE SUMMER Demi LovatO

SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC/HOLLYWOOD

CECILIA AND THE SATELLITE Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness

VANGUARD/CMG

TAKE YOUR TIME

MCA NASHVILLE/CAPITOL

Sam Hunt

TRUST YOU

EMBLEM/ATLANTIC

Rob Thomas

SHOTS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

Imagine Dragons

MARVIN GAVE Charlie Puth Feat. Meghan Trainor

ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC

GHOST TOWN

WARNER BROS.

Adam Lambert

BROTHER NEEDTOBREATHE Feat. Gavin DeGraw

ATLANTIC

LIKE I’M GONNA LOSE YOU Meghan Trainor Feat. John Legend

EPIC

GO BIG OR GO HOME

DIRTY CANVAS/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

American Authors

WORTH IT Fifth Harmony Feat Kid Ink

SYCO/EPIC

SOMEONE NEW

RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA

Hozier

EX’S & OH’S

RCA

File King

60 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data

Data for week of 08.22.2015

CM ID

CO CM

HOT COUNTRY SONGS™

2WKS.

AGO

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

TITLE CERTIFICATION

PRODUCER (SONGWRITER)

Artist

IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

PEAK

POS.

WKS.ON

CHART

Ea HOUSE PARTY

Z.CROWELL.S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT.Z.CROWELLJ.FLOWERS)

Sam Hunt

MCA NASHVILLE

‘ □

KICK THE DUST UP

J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (D.DAVIDSON.C. DESTEFANO.A.GORLEY)

Luke Bryan

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

0 1

CRASH AND BURN •

D.HUFF,J.FRASURE(J.FRASURE,C.STAPLETON)

Thomas Rhett

VALORY

_LJ

LOVING YOU EASY Zac Brown Band

Z.BR0WN (Z.BR0WN,N.M00N,A.ANDERS0N) JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND

TAKE YOUR TIME A

Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY(S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY)

Sam Hunt

MCA NASHVILLE

BUY ME A BOAT

C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS,B.ANDERSON (C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS)

Chris Janson

WARNER BROS./WAR

JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Keith Urban

D.HUFF.K.URBAN (S.MCANALLY,R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE

GIRL CRUSH A

JJOYCE{L.ROSE,L.MCKENNA,H. LINDSEY)

Little Big Town

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

oo
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LIKE A WRECKING BALL

Eric Church

J.J0YCE (E.CHURCH.C.BEATHARD)

EMI NASHVILLE

KISS YOU IN THE MORNING

Michael Ray

S.HENDRICKS (J.WILSON.M.WHITE)

ATLANTIC/WEA

YOUNG & CRAZY

Frankie Ballard

M.ALTMAN, S.HENDRICKS (A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY,R.AKINS)

WARNER BROS./WAR

LOSE MY MIND

Brett Eldredge

R.COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE(B.ELDREDGE,H.MORGAN,R.COPPERMAN,B.ByRTON,T.D.CALLAWAY,G.F.REVERBEI!l,G.P.REVERBEI)l) ATEANTIC/WMN

HELL OF A NIGHT

Dustin Lynch

M.J.CONES (Z.CROWELL.A.SANDERSJ.BOYER)

BROKEN BOW

TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU

Jason Aldean

M.KNOX(D.DAVIDSON,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY)

BROKEN BOW

SANGRIA#

Blake Shelton

S.HENDRICKS (J.T.HARDING,J.OSBORNE,T. ROSEN)

WARNER BROS./WMN

BURNING HOUSE

Cam

J.BHASKER.T.JOHNSON (C.OCHS,T.JOHNSON,J.BHASKER)

ARISTA NASHVILLE

Era Fi-Y

Maddie&Tae

D.HUFF (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,T.VARTANYAN)

DOT

SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY

Kenny Chesney

B.CANNON.K.CHESNEY (A.DORFF.M.RAMSEY.B.TURSI) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

||TJ VM COMIN'OVER

Chris Young

13 ,

C.CROWDER.C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG.C.CROWDERJ.HOGE)

RCA NASHVILLE

REAL LIFE

Jake Owen

S.MCANALLY.R. COPPERMAN (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE

BREAK UP WITH HIM

Old Dominion

S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY.T. ROSEN, B.TURSI,G.SPRUNG,W.SELLERS)

RCA NASHVILLE

ANYTHING GOES Florida Georgia Line

J.MOI (F.MCTEIGUE,C.G.TOMPKINS,C.WISEMAN)

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

LET ME SEE YA GIRL

Cole Swindell

M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,M.CARTER,J.STEVENS)

WARNER BROS./WMN

NOTHIN' LIKE YOU

Dan + Shay

C. DESTEFANO {D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,A.GORLEY,C. DESTEFANO)

WARNER BROS./WAR

GONNA WANNA TONIGHT

Chase Rice

C. DESTEFANO (S.MCANALLY, J.M.NITE.J.ROBBINS) DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

I'M TO BLAME

Kip Moore

B.JAMES(K.M00RE, (.WEAVER, W.DAVIS)

MCA NASHVILLE

LONG STRETCH OF LOVE

Lady Antebellum

N.CHAPMAN,LADY ANTEBELLUM (D.HAYWOOD,C.KELLEY,H.SCOTT,J.KEAR) CAPITOL NASHVILLE

STAY A LITTLE LONGER

Brothers Osborne

(.JOYCE (J. 0SB0RNE,T.J. OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY)

EMI NASHVILLE

fT3 STRIP IT DOWN

Luke Bryan

JjpMjl J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN)

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

■ GOT THE BOY

Jana Kramer

S.HENDRICKS (T.NICHOLS,C.HARRINGTON,J.L.SPEARS)

ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WAR

Hunter Hayes

D.HUFF,H.HAYES(D.DAVIDSON,K.LOVELACE,A.GORLEY,H.HAYES)

ATLANTIC/WMN

ALREADY CALLIN' YOU MINE

Parmalee

NV(M.THOMAS,S.THOMAS,B.KNOX,P.O’DONNELL,W.KIRBY)

STONEY CREEK

WE WENT

Randy Houser

D.GEORGE ((.WILSON, M. ROGERS, (.KING)

STONEY CREEK

SMOKIN' AND DRINKIN' Miranda Lambert Feat. Little Big Town

F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF(N.HEMBY,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY)

RCA NASHVILLE

TOP OF THE WORLD

Tim McGraw

1 .

B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW(J.ROBBINS,J.M.NITE, (.OSBORNE)

MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE

1 LOVE THIS LIFE

LoCash

L.RIMES,P.BRUST,C.LUCAS (D.MYRICK,C.JANSON,C.LUCAS,P.BRUST)

REVIVER

GONNA

Blake Shelton

S.HENDRICKS (L.LAIRD.C.WISEMAN)

WARNER BROS./WMN

HUNTIN', FISHIN' & LOVIN' EVERY DAY

Luke Bryan

J.STEVENS.J.STEVENS (T.DOUGLAS.H. LINDSEY, T.LANE)

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

SOUNDS OF SUMMER

Dierks Bentley

R. COPPERMAN (Z.CROWELL,M.JENKINS,A.SANDERS)

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

IT FEELS GOOD

Drake White

R. COPPERMAN,J.S.STOVER (D.WHITE,P.PENCE,D.GEORGE)

DOT

LOVE IS YOUR NAME

Steven Tyler

D.HUFF (L.LEE,E.PASLAY)

DOT

HONEY, I'M GOOD. A Andy Grammer Duet With Eli Young Band

B.WEST,N.W.SIPE,S.GREENBERG,M.DALY(A.GRAMMER,N.W.SIPE)

S-CURVE/VALORY

RISER

Dierks Bentley

R. COPPERMAN (S.MOAKLER.T.MEADOWS)

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

THAT DON'T SOUND LIKE YOU

Lee Brice

J.STONE,L.BRICE(L.BRICE,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY)

CURB

COUNTRY

Mo Pitney

T.BROWN (M.PITNEY,B.TOMBERLIN,B.ANDERSON)

CURB

WHITE LIGHTNING

The Cadillac Three

D.HUFF,J.NIEBANK ((.JOHNSTON)

BIG MACHINE

BROKE MY HEART

David Nail

F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (D.NAIL, SCOOTER CARUSOE.J.SINGLETON) MCA NASHVILLE

KILL THE LIGHTS

Luke Bryan

J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS(L.BRYAN, (.STEVENS, (.STEVENS)

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

NIGHT'S ON FIRE

David Nail

C.AINLAY,F.LIDDELL,G.WORF ((.SINGLETON, D.RUTTAN)

MCA NASHVILLE

ANOTHER GIRL

Michael Ray

S.HENDRICKS (C. DESTEFANO, R.AKINS.A.GORLEY)

ATLANTIC/WEA

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Montevallo

ALAN JACKSON

ACR/EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

Angels And Alcohol

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BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far... ~

111 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG

ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDE

JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC

JASON ISBELL Something More Than Free

SOUTHEASTERN/THIRTY TIGERS

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ERIC CHURCH ▲

EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

The Outsiders

LITTLE BIG TOWN

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Pain Killer

11^ CHASE RICE Ignite The Night

1^1^ COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACKJANIELS

JASON ALDEAN A

BROKEN BOW/BBMG

Old Boots, New Dirt

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE# Anything Goes

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

BRANTLEY GILBERT # Just AS 1 Am

VALORY/BMLG

VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’S What 1 Call Country, Volume 8

SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME

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WARNER BROS./WMN

The Blade

BLAKE SHELTON # BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE

WARNER BROS./WMN

KACEY MUSGRAVES

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Pageant Material

LUKE BRYAN A

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Crash My Party

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CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Break... Checkin’ Out

WILLIE NELSON / MERLE HAGGARD Django And Jimmie

LEGACY

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KENNY CHESNEY The Big Revival

BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN

BIGSMO Bringin It Home (EP)

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CARRIE UNDERWOOD#

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Greatest Hits: DecatJe#!

COLE SWINDELL

WARNER BROS./WMN

Cole Swindell

DARIUS RUCKER

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Southern Style

EASTON CORBIN

MERCURY/UMGN

About To Get Real

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EH KISS YOU IN THE MORNING Michael Ray

ATLANTIC/WEA

LOVING YOU EASY Zac Brown Band

JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND

YOUNG & CRAZY

WARNER BROS./WAR

Frankie Ballard

HOUSE PARTY

MCA NASHVILLE

Sam Hunt

HELL OF A NIGHT

BROKEN BOW

Dustin Lynch

KICK THE DUST UP

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

Luke Bryan

CRASH AND BURN

VALORY

Thomas Rhett

ONE HELL OF AN AMEN

VALORY

Brantley Gilbert

TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU Jason Aldean

BROKEN BOW

BUY ME A BOAT

WARNER BROS./WAR

Chris Janson

JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Keith Urban

HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE

LOSE MY MIND

ATLANTIC/WMN

Brett Eldredge

SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY

BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

Kenny Chesney

LIKE A WRECKING BALL

EMI NASHVILLE

Eric Church

FLY

DOT

Maddie & Tae

GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Chase Rice

DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

ANYTHING GOES Florida Georgia Line

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

LET ME SEE YA GIRL

WARNER BROS./WMN

Cole Swindell

REAL LIFE

RCA NASHVILLE

Jake Owen

NOTHIN' LIKE YOU

WARNER BROS./WAR

Dan + Shay

BREAK UP WITH HIM

RCA NASHVILLE

Old Dominion

LONG STRETCH OF LOVE

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

Lady Antebellum

& o

I'M TO BLAME

MCA NASHVILLE

Kip Moore

BURNING HOUSE

ARISTA NASHVILLE

Cam

RUN AWAY WITH YOU

B$R/NEW REVOLUTION

Big & Rich

Hunt, Ray
Shine

"House Party" by Sam Hunt
(above) surges 2-1 on Hot
Country Songs, becoming
the third No. 1 from his
debut album, Montevallo.
The set, meanwhile,
rebounds 3-1 for a ninth
nonconsecutive week atop
Top Country Albums, with
13,000 sold, according
to Nielsen Music. Hunt,
who previously ruled Hot
Country Songs with "Leave
the Night On" and "Take
Your Time," is the first act to
notch at least three chart-
toppers from a debut major-
label country album since
Zac Brown Band, whose
2008 The Foundation
yielded four: "Chicken
Fried," "Toes," "Highway
20 Ride" and "Free." The
most recent male to do
so: Darius Rucker, whose
first country project, 2008's
Learn to Live, produced
three No. Is ("Don't Think
I Don't Think About It,"

"It Won't Be Like This for
Long" and "Alright").

Atop Country Airplay,
Michael Ray's first single,
"Kiss You in the Morning,"
rises 2-1. The song
introduces his self-titled
debut album, due to appear
on the Aug. 29 Top Country
Albums chart. "I grew up
listening to many of my
heroes on the radio. To be
part of that with a No. 1
song is crazy," Ray tells
Billboard. "It's a dream that
started when I was 9 years
old, playing in my grandpa's
band."

"Kiss" is the third debut
single to crown Country
Airplay in 2015, following
Kelsea Ballerini's "Love
Me Like You Mean It" and
A Thousand Horses'
"Smoke." Three introductory
songs hadn't topped the
chart since 2006, when
Carrie Underwood
arrived with "Jesus, Take
the Wheel," followed by
The Wreckers' "Leave the
Pieces" and Heartland's
"I Loved Her First."

—Jim Asker

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1 JSINCUIR, YOUNG WOLF HATCHLINGS (FALL OUT BOV,W.HASHMU.yOUNG,LO™NNELLI.SIN[LAIR,J.MARSHALL,R.MOSHER) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

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ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,S.N.HARRIS,N.FELDSHUH,C.HARRIS,A.LEVINE) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

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EX'S & OH’S ElleKing

D.BASSETT(E.KING,D.BASSETT) RCA

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BUDAPEST A George Ezra

BLACKWOOD C. (GEORGE EZRA.J.POTT) COLUMBIA

2 53

CENTURIES A Fall Out Boy

J.R.ROTEM,OMEGA(J.R.ROTEM,P.V.STUMP,P.WENTZ,J.TROHMAN,A.HURLEY,M.J.FONSECA,R.KUMARI.J.TRANTNER,S.VEGA) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

2 48

TEAR IN MY HEART twenty one pilots

R.REED (T.JOSEPH) FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

7 19

CECILIA AND THE SATELLITE Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness

M.VIOLA,J.FLANNIGAN,A.GRAHN (A.MCMAHON,J.FLANNIGAN,A.GRAHN) VANGUARD/CMG

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SOMEONE NEW

Hozier

SHOTS

Imagine Dragons

IMAGINE DRAGONS (IMAGINE DRAGONS)

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

STRESSED OUT

twenty one pilots

M.ELIZONDO (T.JOSEPH)

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

DREAMS

Beck

G.KURSTIN.B.HANSEN (B.HANSEN,G.KURSTIN,A. WYATT)

FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL

FIRST

Cold War Kids

J D.GALLUCCI.L.STALFORS (N.WILLETT.M.MAUST,D.GALLUCCI,J.PLUMMER,M.SCHWARTZ) DOWNTOWN

1 JEKYLL AND HYDE

Five Finger Death Punch

J FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, K.CHURKO{I.MOODY,Z.BATHORY,J.HOOK,J.S.HEYDE,K.CHURKO) PROSPECT PARK

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Mumford & Sons

■ J.FORD(MUMFORD&SONS)

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

IfTrl CUT THE CORD

Shinedown

J E.BA55(B.SMITH,E.BASS)

ATLANTIC

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Mumford & Sons

■ J.FORD(MUMFORD&SONS)

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

1 HOLD BACK THE RIVER

James Bay

■ I.ARCHER(J.BAY,LARCHER)

REPUBLIC

1 HALLELUJAH

Panic! At The Disco

J ROYAL (A.WRIGHT,LR.EL-AMINE,B.URIE,M.KIBBY,J.SINCLAIR,R.W.LAMM) DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

1 GO BIG OR GO HOME

American Authors

^ SHEP GOODMAN,A.ACCEnA (Z.BARNETT,M.SANCHEZ,J.A..5HELLEY,M.G00DMAN,S.ACCEnA,J.DAVIS) DIRTY CANVAS/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

SHIP TO WRECK

Florence + The Machine

M.DRAVS,KID HARPOON (F.WELCH,T.HULL)

REPUBLIC

THE VENGEFUL ONE

Disturbed

K.CHURKO (DISTURBED)

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

RIDE

twenty one pilots

R.REED (T.JOSEPH)

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

THRONE

Bring Me The Horizon

O.SYKES.J.FISH (O.SYKES,M.S.NICHOLLS,L.D.MALIA,J.FISH)

COLUMBIA

COULD HAVE BEEN ME

The Struts

^ J.WILKINSON (A.SLACK,L.SPILLER,J.WILKINSON,R.PARKHOUSE,G.TIZZARD) FUTURE/FREESOLO/INTERSCOPE

1 S.O.B. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED)

BOTTLENECK/STAX/CMG

2 HEADS

Coleman Hell

C.HELL (C.HELL.R.BENVEGNU)

COLUMBIA

FAILURE

Breaking Benjamin

B.BURNLEY(B.BURNLEY)

HOLLYWOOD

LYDIA

Highly Suspect

(.HAMILTON (J.STEVENS,R.MEYER,R.MEYER)

300

LET IT GO

James Bay

J.KING (J.BAY.P.BARRY)

REPUBLIC

LANE BOY

twenty one pilots

R.REED (T.JOSEPH)

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

FOOTSTEPS

Pop Evil

A.KASPER (L.P.KAKATY.D.BASSETT)

G&G/EONE

RUN

AWOLNATION

A.BRUNO(A.BRUNO)

RED BULL

JENNY

Nothing More

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SEDONA

Houndmouth

D.COBB(M.MYERS,K.TOUPIN,S.CODY,Z.APPLEBY)

ROUGH TRADE/BEGGARS GROUP

BLAME IT ON ME

George Ezra

BLACKWOOD C. (GEORGE EZRA.J.POTT)

COLUMBIA

HEAVYDIRTYSOUL

twenty one pilots

R.REED (T.JOSEPH)

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

THE JUDGE

twenty one pilots

M.CROSSEY (T.J0SEPH)

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

HAPPY SONG

Bring Me The Horizon

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Papa Roach

J K.CHURKO (J.SHADDIX,T.ESPERANCE,J.HORTON,K.CHURKO,M.BRINK) ELEVEN SEVEN

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J T.PAGNOTTA (N.PETRICCA,K.RAY,S.WAUGAMAN,E.MAIMAN)

RCA

■ BEAST (SOUTHPAW REMIX) Rob Bailey & The Hustle standard Feat Busta Rhymes, KXNG Crooked & Tech N9ne

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DOUBT

twenty one pilots

R.REED (T.JOSEPH)

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

ANGELS FALL

Breaking Benjamin

B.BURNLEY(B.BURNLEY)

HOLLYWOOD

LEAVE A TRACE

CHVRCHES

CHVRCHES(I.COOK,M.DOHERTY,L.MAYBERRY)

GOODBYE/GLASSNOTE

NOBODY PRAYING FOR ME

Seether

B.O’BRIEN (S.MORGAN.SEETHER)

THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY/CMG

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SAINT ASONIA

RCA

Saint Asonia

LAMB OF GOD

EPIC

VII: Sturm Und Drang

JASON ISBELL Something More Than Free

SOUTHEASTERN/THIRTY TIGERS

0|PS

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Hozier 44

KNUCKLE PUCK Copacetlc

RISE

TAME IMPALA Currents

MODULAR/INTERSCOPE/IGA

BREAKING BENJAMIN Dark Before Dawn

HOLLYWOOD

SOUNDTRACK A Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD

FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho

DCD2/ISLAND

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE How Big How Blue How Beautiful

REPUBLIC

MUMFORD & SONS Wilder Mind

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

ELLE KING Love Stuff

RCA

WE CAME AS ROMANS We Came As Romans

EQUAL VISION

WARREN HAYNES FEAT. RAILROAD EARTH Ashes & Dust

CONCORD

IMAGINE DRAGONS Smoke + Mirrors

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

ALABAMA SHAKES Sound & Color

ATO

TITUS ANDRONICUS The Most Lamentable Tragedy

MERGE

LYNYRD SKYNYRD One More For The Fans

BLACKBIRD PRODUCTION PARTNERS/LOUD & PROUD

VARIOUS ARTISTS 2015 Warped Tour Compilation

SIDEONEDUMMY

WALK THE MOON TALKING IS HARD

RCA

X AMBASSADORS VHS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

GEORGE EZRA Wanted On Voyage

COLUMBIA

OF MONSTERS AND MEN Beneath The Skin

REPUBLIC

JOE SATRIANI Shockwave Supernova

LEGACY

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TITLE

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'EZl UMA THURMAN

Uil DCD2/ISLAND

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SHUT UP AND DANCE

RCA

WALK THE MOON

RENEGADES

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

X Ambassadors

EX'S & OH'S

RCA

Elle King

SOMEONE NEW

RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA

Hozier

BUDAPEST

COLUMBIA

George Ezra

BROTHER NEEDTOBREATHE Feat. Gavin DeGraw

ATLANTIC/AG

S.O.B. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

BOTTLENECK/STAX/CONCORD

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DCD2/ISLAND

Fall Out Boy

TAKE ME TO CHURCH

RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA

Hozier

TEAR IN MY HEART

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

twenty one pilots

RIPTIDE

F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG

Vance Joy

JEKYLL AND HYDE Five Finger Death Punch

PROSPECT PARK

LEARN TO FLY

ROSWELL/RCA

Foo Fighters

GO BIG OR GO HOME

DIRTY CANVAS/ISLAND

American Authors

CECILIA AND THE SATELLITE Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness

VANGUARD/WELK

BEAST (SDUTHPAW REMIX) Rob Bailey 8, The Hustle standard

SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

IMMORTALS

WALT DISNEY/DCD2/ISLAND

Fall Out Boy

CUT THE CORD

ATLANTIC/AG

Shinedown

FIRST

DOWNTOWN

Cold War Kids

DREAMS

FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL

Beck

STRESSED OUT

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

twenty one pilots

FLAWLESS

FAIR TRADE/PLG

MercyMe

SHOTS

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

Imagine Dragons

SHIP TO WRECK Florence + The Machine

REPUBLIC

Saint

Asonia

Ascends

Supergroup Saint Asonia

(above) debuts at No. 1 on
Hard Rock Albums with its
first self-titled studio set,
starting with 13,000 sold,
according to Nielsen Music.
Frontman Adam Gontier,
previously lead singer of
Three Days Grace, is
joined by members of other
hard rock bands, including
Staind and Finger Eleven.
The set also starts at No. 2
on Top Rock Albums and
No. 29 on the Billboard 200,
while its lead single, "Better
Place," lifts 10-8 on the
Mainstream Rock airplay
chart.

Fall Out Boy's "Lima
Thurman" crowns Rock
Digital Songs (2-1)
with 53,000 sold (up
4 percent) in its 30th week,
completing the second-
longest run to No. 1 on
the list. Tying the climb
of Bastille's "Pompeii"

(2013 and 2014), it trails
only Imagine Dragons'
"Radioactive," which needed
32 weeks in 2012 and 2013.
"Uma," Fall Out Boy's third
Rock Digital Songs No. 1,
ranks at its No. 2 Hot Rock
Songs peak for a sixth week.

Also on Hot Rock Songs,
Hozier's "Someone
New" enters the top 10
(19-10). The track marks the
singer-songwriter's second
top 10 following "Take Me
to Church," which tied
"Radioactive" for the most
weeks (23) spent at No. 1.
"New" also hits the Triple
A top 10 (12-8), marking
his third top 10 at the
format. Hozier performed
"Someone New" on July 31
as part of ABC's Good
Morning America Summer
Concert Series. Following
the gig, his self-titled debut
full-length bounds 16-5 on
Top Rock Albums (9,000;
up 50 percent), and his new
EP Live in America debuts
at No. 29 (2,000).

—Emily White

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DEPUTY, K.WEST (J.PIERRE,B.BOURELLY,R.FENTY,J.WEBSTER,K.O.WEST) WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION

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ALL EYES ON YOU Meek Mill Feat. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj

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PLANES • Jeremih Featuring J. Cole

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ENERGY Drake

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HOTLINE BLING Drake

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21 1

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14 22

HOW MANY TIMES DJ Khaled Feat. Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Big Sean

DJ KHALED,LEE ON THE BEATS,B.KORN,OZ (K.M.KHALED,C.M.BROWN,D.CARTER,S.M.ANDERSON) WE THE BEST/RED ASSOCIATED LABELS

17 13

WHERE YA AT Future Featuring Drake

L.WAYNE (N.WILBURN CASH,L.WAYNE,A.GRAHAM) A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

20 3

100 The Game Featuring Drake

CARDO ON THE BEAT,J.JULIANO (J.TAYLOR,S.BENTON,C.JONES,A.GRAHAM,J.E.JULIAN JR.,R.LATOUR,P.BRYSON) FIFTH ADMENDMENT/BLOOD MONEY/EONE

25 3

COMFORTABLE KCamp

BIG FRUIT (K.T.CAMPBELL,L.CLOPTON,D.JACKSON,T.BALOGUN) DAT REAL/FTE/4.27/INTERSC0PE

26 4

ALRIGHT Kendrick Lamar

P.L.WILUAMS,SOUNWAVE {K.DUCKWORTH,P.L.WILLIAMS,M.SPEARS) TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE

24 9

ONE MAN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD Big Sean Feat. Kanye West & John Legend

AJOHNSON (S.M.ANDERSON,A.JOHNSON,K.O.WEST,JOHN LEGEND,M.G.DEAN,D.MCFARLANE,W.L.ROBERTS II) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

27 12

RIGHT HAND Drake

VINYLZ,FRANK DUKES (A.GRAHAM.A.HERNANDEZ,A.FEENY,K.GLNESBERK,T.BRYANT) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

29 1

AROUND THE WORLD Natalie La Rose Feat. Fetty Wap

MAX MARTIN, MAG,ILYA (M.D,BORRERO,I.SALMANZADEH,MAX MARTIN, S.KOTECHA,R.B. GORANSSON,J.ERANKS,W.MAXWELL) I.M.G./REPUBLIC

30 5

COFFEE Miguel

MIGUEL (M.J.PIMENTEL,B.DAVIS) BYSTORM/BLACK ICE/RCA

26 14

NOSLEEEP Janet Featuring J. Cole

J.JACKSON,JIMMY JAM,T.S.LEWIS (J.JACKSON,J.COLE,J.S.HARRIS lll,T.S.LEWIS) RHYTHM NATION/BMG

18 7

TRAP N****S Future

J.LUELLEN (N.WILBURN CASH.J.H.LUELLEN) A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

29 3

BLOW A BAG Future

L.WAYNE,SONNY DIGITAL.J.LUELLEN (N.WILBURN CASH,L.WAYNE,S.C.UWAEZUOKE,J.H.LUELLEN) A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

26 3

LIQUOR Chris Brown

A.STITH.THE AQUARIUS (C.M.BROWN.A.STITH.O.SAMPSON) RCA

35 6

COME GET HER RaeSremmurd

MIKE WILL MADE-IT,A+ (A.BROWN,K.U.BROWN,M.L.WILLIAMS,A.HOGAN) EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE

35 17

HOOD GO CRAZY Tech N9Ne Featuring 2 Chainz & B.o.B

N4 (A.D.YATES,T.EPPS,B.R.SIMMONS, JR.,C.MONTGOMERY lll,N.LUSCOMBE,F.VAN WORKUM) STRANGE

27 15

ABOUT YOU TreySongz

M.NILAN, JR.,TWENTY1 (T.NEVERSON,E.DEAN,B.GREEN,J.VAUGHN,M.NILAN, JR.,L.FUDGE,C.SIMON) SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC

38 2

JUMP OUT THE FACE Meek Mill Featuring Future

L.WAYNE,J.LUELLEN (R.R.WILLIAMS,L.WAYNE,J.H.LUELLEN,N.WILBURN CASH) MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

28 6

KINGS NEVER DIE Eminem Featuring Gwen Stefani

DJ KHALIL (M.MATHERS lll,L.E.RESTO,K.ABDUL-RAHMAN,E.ALCOCK,P.C.INJETI,L.RODRIGUES) SHADY/INTERSCOPE

23 4

HIT THE QUAN (SiHeartMemphis

BUCK NASTY (R.COLBERT) PALM TREE

41 1

REAL SISTERS Future

ZAYTOVEN (N.WILBURN CASH.X.DOTSON) A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

33 3

CHECK Young Thug

LONDON ON DA TRACK (J.WILLIAMS.L.HOLMES) 300/ATLANTIC

30 16

YOGA Janelle Monae & Jidenna

N.WONDER,N.KWABENA TUFFUOR, JIDENNA (J.M.ROBINSON,J.MOBISSON,N.IRVIN lll,N.KWABENATUFFUOR,CJOSEPH II . . .) WONDALAND/EPIC

24 13

CHOICES (YUP) E-40

POLY BOY (E.T.STEVENS.D.TIMA) HEAVY ON THE GRIND/CAPITOL

43 6

DON’T Bryson Tiller

DOPE BOI (B.TILLER.I.B.STEWART.T.HOLLINS, JR.,M.CAREY,J.DUPRI,B.M.COX,J.AUSTIN) TRAPSOUL

46 2

PHENOMENAL Eminem

EMINEM (M.MATHERS III.L.E.RESTO.M.RESTO) SHADY/INTERSCOPE

14 6

THOUGHT IT WAS A DROUGHT Future

L.WAYNE.A.RITTER (N.WILBURN CASH,L.WAYNE,A.RITTER) A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

42 2

NOTHING BUT TROUBLE Lil Wayne & Charlie Ruth

COOK CLASSICS.C.PUTH (C.PUTH.D.CARTER) BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC

33 3

1 KNOW Big Sean Featuring Jhene Aiko

DJ MUSTARD.KEY WANE {S.M.ANDERSON,D.MCFARLANE,D.M.WEIR II.J.A.E. CHILOMBO) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

37 8

TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS™

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS.ON

IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART

■ca JILL SCOTT Woman" 2

llljf BLUES BABE/ATLANTIC/AG

LIL DICKY

DAVID BURD/CMSN

Professional Rapper

f FUTURE

1 A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

DS2

TYRESE

1 VOLTRON RECORDZ

Black Rose

MIGOS

1 QUALITY CONTROL/300/AG

Yung Rich Nation

JOSS STONE

1 STONE’D/KOBALT

Water For Your Soul

1 SOUNDIMK SoiithpawiMusicFromAndlnspiiHlByTlieMotionPicture

1 SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

\ LIANNE LA HAVAS

1 NONESUCH/WARNER BROS.

Blood

I DRAKE If You’re Reaijing This It’s Too Late

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

MEEK MILL Dreams Worth More Than Money

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

J.COLE# 2014 Forest Hills Drive

DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly

TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

INSANE CLOWN POSSE Marvelous Missing Link (Found)

PSYCHOPATHIC

LEON BRIDGES Coming Home

LISASAWYER63/C0LUMBIA

MIGUEL Wildheart

BYSTORM/BLACK ICE/RCA

A$AP ROCKY AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

GUNPLAY Living Legend

DEE JAM

NICKI MINAJ# ThePinkprint

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

VARIOUS ARTISTS Nina Revisited... A Tribute To Nina Simone

REVIVE/RCA

BIG SEAN Dark Sky Paradise

G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

HOPSIN Pound Syndrome

FUNK VOLUME/WARNER BROS.

JACK & JACK Calibraska (EP)

JACK AND JACK

SOUNDTRACK Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1

2 OTH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA

BOOSIE BADAZZ Touch Down 2 Cause Hell

TRILL/ATLANTIC/AG

1 JAMIE FOXX Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses

JB ENTERTAINMENT/RCA

RAP DIGITAL SONGS

LAST THIS TITLE
WEEK WEEK

BACK TO BACK

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

Artist WKS.ON

Drake

WATCH ME Silento

BOLO/CAPITOL

MY WAY Petty Wap Feat. Monty

RGF/300

679 Petty Wap Feat. Remy Boyz

RGF/300

CHARGED UP Drake

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

SEE YOU AGAIN Wiz Khalifa Feat. Charlie Puth

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/AG

TRAP QUEEN Petty Wap

RGF/300

HOTLINE BLING Drake

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

1 DON’T LIKE IT, 1 LOVE IT Flo Rida Feat Robin Thicke & Verdine White

POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG

FLEX (OOH OOH OOH) Rich Homie Quan

RICH HOMIEZ/THINK IT’S A GAME

RIGHT HAND Drake

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

ALL EYES ON YOU Meek Mill Feat. Cbris Brown & Nicki Minaj

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

HIT THE QUAN (^iHeartMemphis

PALM TREE

FUN Pitbull Feat. Chris Brown

MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

THIS COULD BE US RaeSremmurd

EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA

NASTY FREESTYLE T-Wayne

WERUNIT/UNAUTHORIZED/300

PHENOMENAL Eminem

SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

R.I.C.O. Meek Mill Feat. Drake

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

0 TO 100 / THE CATCH UP Drake

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

ENERGY Drake

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

KINGS NEVER DIE Eminem Feat. Gwen Stefani

SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

BE REAL Kid Ink Feat. DeJ Loaf

THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA

ONEMANCANCHANGETHEWORLD BigSeiFeaLKanyeWest&Johntega^

G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

THE NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG Nicki Minaj

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas

POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG

Lil Dicky
Laughs
His Way
ToNo.l

Professional Rapper, the
debut full-length by Lil
Dicky (above), opens atop
Rap Albums with 22,000
copies sold in the week
ending Aug. 6, according
to Nielsen Music. The
comedic rapper (real name:
David Burd) also enters at
No. 1 on Comedy Albums
and No. 7 on the Billboard
200. The album and its
supporting music clips
were funded in part by a
Kickstarter campaign that
raised $110,000.

Lil Dicky first found viral
success on YouTube in 2013
after releasing a video for
the track "ExBoyfriend,"
which has amassed nearly
11 million global views as of
Aug. 11.

Meanwhile, four new
Drake songs arrive on
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs,
some of them due to his
recent beef with fellow
rapper Meek Mill. "Back
to Back," Drake's second
release targeting Mill in
a Twitter-bred feud that
began July 21, leads the
bunch at No. 8, marking his
third-highest debut (of his
total 109 charted tracks).
The song sold 122,000
downloads, enough for
a No. 1 entrance on Rap
Digital Songs — his first
to debut atop the chart
as a lead act (and fourth
overall). Drake's first diss
track directed at Mill,
"Charged Up" (released
July 25), arrives at No. 21 on
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs,
followed by new singles
"Hotline Bling" (No. 20) and
"Right Hand" (No. 29).

On Top R&B/Hip-Hop
Albums, Migos take the
No. 5 slot with their debut
album, Yung Rich Nation
(15,000 sold). The Atlanta
hip-hop trio charted with
album track "One Time" on
the April 11 Hot R&B/Hip-
Hop Songs tally, peaking
at No. 34.

—Amaya Mendizabal

Data for week of 08.22.2015

Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 63

August 22
2015

HOT LATIN SONGS™

TOP LATIN ALBUMS™

2WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION
AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER)

Artist PEAK WKS.ON
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EL PERDON Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias

SAGAWHITEBlA[K(N.RIVEI)ACAMINEROSAGAWHITEBmj.D.MEDINAVELEZJTHOMASnHOMAS,E.M.IGLESIK) CODISEOS/LAINDUSIRIA/SONV MUSIC lATIN

LA GOZADERA Gente de Zona Featuring Marc Anthony

M0TIFF,5.GE0RGE (A.DELGADO HERNANDEZ, R. M.MARTINEZ AMEY.A.GONZALEZ ARROYO) MAGNUS/SONY MUSIC LATIN

PROPUESTA INDECENTE

A.SANTOS (A.SANTOS)

Romeo Santos

SONY MUSIC LATIN

TE METISTE

J.GONZALEZ (S.MERCADO)

Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho

GINZA

SKY, MOSTLY (J.A.0S0RI0 BALVIN,R.RAMIREZ SUAREZ,D.CANO RIOS,S.VIILLADA H0Y05,C.A.PATIN0 GOMEZ)

J Balvin

CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE

m 16

13 14

107

FANATICA SENSUAL Plan B

HAZE.D.DURAN (O.J.VALLE VEGA,E.F.VAZQUEZ,E.ROSA CINTRON, D.DURAN) PINA/SONY MUSIC LATIN

3 32

EL AMOR DE SU VIDA Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda

J.ALVAREZ (J.BAHUMAE) FONOVISA/UMLE

4 22

HILITO Romeo Santos

A.SANTOS, I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN

4 34

MALDITAS GANAS El Komander

A.VALENZUELA (A.RIOS) TWIINS

7 20

VjTcl LA MORDIDITA Ricky Martin Featuring Yotuel

Y.ROMERO,A.RAYO GIBO (P.CAPO,J.GOMEZ,Y.ROMERO,B.LUENGO,R.MARTIN) SONY MUSIC LATIN

10 12 ■

AUNQUE AHORA ESTES CON EL Calibre 50

J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (J.E.MURGUIA PEDRAZA.M.L.ARRIAGA) DISA/UMLE

11 8

SIGUEMEYTESIGO Daddy Yankee

CHRIS JEDAY (R.L.AYALA RODRIGUEZ, C.E.ORTIZ RIVERA, C.E.ORTIZ REVERA) CAPITOL LATIN/EL CARTEL/UMLE

6 22

PERDIDO EN TUS OJOS Don Omar Featuring Natti Natasha

DON OMAR (W.O.LANDRON RIVERA,N.GUTIERREZ,C.E.ORTIZ REVERA,C.E.ORTIZ RIVERA) MACHETE/UMLE

13 20

Ml VICIO MAS GRANDE Banda FI Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga

A.LIZARRAGA,J.LIZARRAGA (L.L.DIAZ,J.INZUNZA FAVELA) FONOVISA/UMLE

9 15

FTpl PIENSALO Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga

S.LIZARRAGA,BANDASINALOENSA MS (H.PALENCIA CISNEROS) REMEX

15 6 1

CUAL ADIOS Banda Clave Nueva de Max Peraza

R.VERDUZCO (FATO) TALENT MUSIC GROUP/FONOVISA/UMLE

16 12

EL TAXI Pitbull Featuring Sensato & Osmani Garcia

D) CHINO, J.GOMEZMJRTINEZ(E.BONNER,mVLOR,iDUNBJR,LWILLiy.[.PEREZJ£GAR[IA,O.GAR[IA,W.J.REVNA,iGOMEZIllARU EAMOUS ARTIST/MR. ffi/SONV MUSIC EATIN

17 16

ME VOY ENAMORANDO Chino & Nacho Featuring Farruko

MOTIFF (J.A.MIRANDA PEREZ, M.I.MENDOZA DONAHLG.MARIN ESP0IN0ZA,S.PRIMERA,C.E.REYE5-R0SAD0) MACHETE/UMLE

18 17

A LO MEJOR Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga

S.LIZARRAGA (I.CHAVEZ ESPINOZA) REMEX

15 22

EL CHOLO Gerardo Ortiz

G.ORITZ (G.ORTIZ) BAD SIN/DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN

17 14

BACK IT UP Prince Royce Featuring Jennifer Lopez & Pithull

ILYA (S.KOTECHA,I.SALMANZADEH,A.C.PEREZ,G.R.ROJAS) SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA

21 10

BADDEST GIRL IN TOWN Pitbull Feat. Mohombi & Wisin

M.MOUPONDO,A.COTOI (A.[.PEREZ,M.MOUPONDO,M.MOUPONDO,A.[OTOI,J.E.MORERA LUNA,J.[.GARCIA,J.GOMEZ MARTINEZ) MR. 305/SONY MUSIC LATIN

22 6

DUELE EL AMOR Tony Dize

E.SEMPER,X.SEMPER,TAINY,V.V.HOORE,I.RODRIGUEZ,P.L.ARCAY,ELNASI,K.PALENCIA,J.C.LOSADA(R.PINA,E.SEMPER,X.SEMPER,E.iRODRIGUEZ) PINA/SONV MUSIC LATIN

18 12

CALENTURA Yandel

HAZE (L.VEGUILLA MALAVE,E.ROSA CINTRON,G.L.CINTRON,A.D.CINTRON) SONY MUSIC LATIN

10 14

SOLITA Prince Royce

G.R.ROJAS,E.DAVILA JR.,D.LORA (G.R.ROJAS,D.LORA,Y.M.THEN JAQUEZ) SONY MUSIC LATIN

13 20

CONFESION La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho

F.CAMACHO TIRADO (D.SIERRA) DISA/UMLE

26 11

LAPRISION Mana

F.OLVERA (F.OLVERA,G.NORIEGA) WARNER LATINA

27 11

SUNSET Farruko Featuring Shaggy & Nicky Jam

T.JOHNSTON (C.E.REYES ROSADO, N.RIVERA CAMINERO,O.BURRELL,L.T.JOHNSTON,N.SILVERA) SONY MUSIC LATIN

28 2

BORRO CASSETTE Maluma

THE RUDE BOYS (J.L.LONDONO ARIAS,D.CANO RIOS.K.MAURICIO JIMENEZ,B.SNAIDER LEZCANO) SONY MUSIC LATIN

29 3

BONITO Y BELLO La Septima Banda de Guamuchil Sinaloa

L.LUNA DIAZ (O.TARAZON,J.P.ZAZUETA,K.CERVANTES) FONOVISA/UMLE

19 19

MUCHACHITA LINDA Juan Luis Guerra 440

J.L.GUERRA SEIJAS (J.L.GUERRA SEIJAS) CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE

31 7

SI LO HACEMOS BIEN Wisin

NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MELODIAS DE ORO/SONY MUSIC LATIN

32 3

HOMBRE LIBRE La Adictiva Banda San Jose de Mesillas

A.VALDES (B.F.PACHECO ACOSTA) ANVAL/SONY MUSIC LATIN

32 18

LA REVANCHA La Trakalosa de Monterrey

G.CHAVEZ MORENO (M.CASTRO ORTEGA.J.R. BENITEZ) REMEX

34 4

NO ME LLAMAS Gocho “FI Lapiz de Platino”

iPMORALES PEREZ (O.J.CEPEDA MATO5,iA.A.T0RRES-ABREU CASTR0,JJ.5ANTANA LUGO,X.MONTALVO VEGA,I.P.M0RALE5 PERE4S.RAMIREZ LOPEZ) MELODIAS DE ORD

35 9

EL PAPEL CAMBIO FI Komander

A.VALENZUELA (C.VEGA) TWIINS

34 13

UN DESENGANO Conjunto Primavera Feat. Ricky Munoz

C.PRIMAVERA (C.ALAFFA.J.J.PAEZ) FONOVISA/UMLF

37 3

COMO ANTES Tito “FI Bambino” FI Parton Feat. Zion & Lennox

TITO FL BAMBINO.L.BFRRIOS NIFVFS (TITO “FL BAMBINO",L.BFRRIOS NIFVFS) ON FIRF/SIFNTF/UMLF

20 13

AHORA QUE TE VAS Christian Daniel

NOT LISTFD (NOT LISTED) SUMMA

39 2

UNAS HELADAS Grupo Maximo Grado

C.FELIX (C.FELIX) AFINARTE/SONY MUSIC LATIN

34 8

BAJITO Jencarlos Canela Featuring Ky-Mani Marley

MAFFIO (J.CANELA,K.MARLEY,C.A.PERALTA,O.E.HERNANDEZ VILLEGAS) UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE

32 14

DEBAJO DEL SOMBRERO Leandro Rios Featuring Pancho Uresti

G.CHAVEZ MORENO (M.A.CONTERO RODRIGUEZ) REMEX

40 7

CAJITADE CARTON Intocable

INTOCABLE (W.CASTILLO UTRIA) GOOD l/UMLE

43 3

IMAGINANDOTE Reykon Featuring Daddy Yankee

CHRIS JEDAY,DADDV YANKEE.REYKON (C.E.ORTIZ REVERA,J.A.A.TORRES-ABREU CASTRO,C.E.ORTIZ RIVERA.R.L.AYALA RODRIGUEZ) WARNER LATINA

25 13

NOCHE DE PASION Frank Reyes

FRANK REYES (F.A.BENCOSME) VENEMUSIC/UMLE

45 1 1

VETE ACOSTUMBRANDO Larry Hernandez

LHERNANDEZ (C.BRIBIESCA) SODIN/FONOVISA/UMLE

33 9

NADIE COMO Flex

CHRIS JEDAY (F.DANILO GOMEZ.L.C.ORTIZ RIVERA,J.J.TORRES,C.E.ORTIZ RIVERA) SUMMA

46 3

SUENA LA BANDA Los Tucanes de Tijuana Feat. Codigo FN

M.QUINTERO LARA (M.QUINTERO LARA) FONOVISA/UMLE

44 4

ENTREMI VIDAYLATUYA Fonseca

J.REYES COPELLO (J.F.FONSECA) HANDY/SONY MUSIC LATIN

49 1

DESPUES DE Tl QUIEN La Adictiva Banda San Jose de Mesillas

NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) ANVAL/SONY MUSIC LATIN

50 1

LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION
WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

Title WKS.ON
CHART

JOAN SEBASTIAN Personalidad

MUSART/SONY MUSIC LATIN

PITBULL Dale

FAMOUS ARTIST/MR. 305/SONY MUSIC LATIN

JOAN SEBASTIAN Lo Esencial de Joan Sebastian: Sentimental

MUSART/SONY MUSIC LATIN

JOAN SEBASTIAN Lo Esencial de Joan Sebastian: Secreto de Amor

MUSART/SONY MUSIC LATIN

JUAN GABRIEL Mis Numero 1... 40 Aniversario

SONY MUSIC LATIN

JOAN SEBASTIAN Lo Esencial de Joan Sebastian: Hasta Que Amanezca

MUSART/SONY MUSIC LATIN

JUAN GABRIEL A Los DuO

FONOVISA/UMLE

GERARDO ORTIZ Hoy Mas Fuerte

BAD SIN/DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN

INDIA Intensamente Con Canciones de Juan Gabriel

TOP STOP/SONY MUSIC LATIN

ROMEO SANTOS A Formula: Vol. 2

SONY MUSIC LATIN

EL KOMANDER Detras del Miedo

TWIINS

JULION ALVAREZ Y SU NORTENO BANDA Lecciones Para El Corazon

DISA/UMLE

DON OMAR Last Don II

MACHETE/UMLE

VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 Corridos Bien Perrones, Vol. 3

FONOVISA/UMLE

MANA A Cama Incendiada

WARNER LATINA

JOAN SEBASTIAN DOS ClasicOS

MUSART/BALBOA/SONY MUSIC LATIN

MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS 15 Inolvidables

FONOVISA/UMLE

JUAN GABRIEL Te Acuerdas: 20 Nostalgicas

SONY MUSIC LATIN

VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 Corridos Bien Perrones

FONOVISA/UMLE

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS A Sex And Love

REPUBLIC/UMLE

VARIOUS ARTISTS Las Gruperas Romanticas 2015

FONOVISA/UMLE

CALIBRE 50 Lo Mejor de

DISA/UMLE

VARIOUS ARTISTS Las Bandas Romanticas de America 2015

FONOVISA/UMLE

ANA GABRIEL Mi Regalo, Mis Numero 1...

SONY MUSIC LATIN

BANDA EL RECODO DE CRUZ LIZARRAGA Mi ViciO Mas Grande

FONOVISA/UMLE

REGIC

»NAL MEXICAN AIRPLAY™

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

TITLE Artist

IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

WKS.ON

CHART

ItWcfrl aunque AHORA ESTES CON EL Calibre 50

DISA/UMLE

TE METISTE Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho

DEL

CUAL ADIOS Banda Clave Nueva de Max Peraza

TALENT MUSIC GROUP/FONOVISA/UMLE

MALDITAS GANAS El Komander

TWIINS

EL AMOR DE SU VIDA Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda

FONOVISA/UMLE

Ml VICIO MAS GRANDE Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga

FONOVISA/UMLE

EL CHOLO Gerardo Ortiz

BAD SIN/DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN

PIENSALO Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga

REMEX

UN DESENGANO Conjunto Primavera Featuring Ricky Munoz

FONOVISA/UMLE

CONFESION La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacbo

DISA/UMLE

LA REVANCHA La Trakalosa de Monterrey

REMEX

ME SOBRABAS TU Banda Los Recoditos

DISA/UMLE

BONITO Y BELLO La Septima Banda de Guamucbil Sinaloa

FONOVISA/UMLE

UNAS HELADAS Grupo Maximo Grado

AFINARTE/SONY MUSIC LATIN

CAJITADE CARTON Intocable

GOOD l/UMLE

SUENA LA BANDA Los Tucanes de Tijuana Feat. Codigo FN

FONOVISA/UMLE

NO VALORASTE Roberto Tapia

FONOVISA/UMLE

A LO MEJOR Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga

REMEX

VENENO DuelO

LA BONITA

SE YA MURIENDO Ml ALMA La Septima Banda de Guamuchil Sinaloa

HYPHY/ALIANZA

TE ACUERDAS DE TU AMIGA Adriel Favela

GERENCIA360

PARA QUE AMARTE La Maquinaria Nortena

AZTECA/FONOVISA/UMLE

MIL VECES TE QUIERO Banda Rancho Viejo

DISA/UMLE

MAS QUE CLAVADO CONTIGO El Dasa

FONOVISA/UMLE

NADA MAS POR ESO Luis Coronel

EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS/DEL

Calibre 50
Collects
Fifth No. 1

Mexican group Calibre
50 (above) collects its fifth
No. 1 on Regional Mexican
Airplay as "Aunque Ahora
Estes Con El" steps 2-1.

The track takes Greatest
Gainer honors for a second
consecutive week, rising
22 percent (to 8.6 million
audience impressions) in
the tracking week ending
Aug. 9, according to Nielsen
Music. It's the second No. 1
this year for the band, which
ruled for 10 straight weeks
with "Contigo" between the
charts dated March 21 and
May 23. The new track's
No. 1 ascent also aids its
new peak on the hybrid
airplay/sales/streaming Hot
Latin Songs chart, where
it hops 15-11 in its eighth
charting frame.

Also on Hot Latin
Songs, Ricky Martin
earns his 26th top 10 as
"La Mordidita" (featuring
Yotuel) rises 12-10. The lift
bumps Martin into fourth
place for the most top 10s
in the 29-year history of
the chart. (Luis Miguel
leads with 39.) "Mordidita"
receives the Digital
Gainer award, increasing
22 percent to more than
2,000 downloads in the
week ending Aug. 6. At
radio, the track climbs
4 percent (to 7.8 million
audience impressions)
and continues at its No. 6
peak on Latin Airplay for a
second week.

Lastly, Gente de Zona
reaches a new peak on Hot
Latin Songs, ascending
3-2 with "La Gozadera"
(featuring Marc Anthony).
Radio airplay is the main
cause for the climb,
growing by 2 percent
and reaching 10.5 million
audience impressions — the
song's best on-air week yet.
(It also steps 3-2 on Latin
Airplay.) A 13 percent swell
in streaming (to 629,000
weekly clicks) helps the
tune's rise.

—Amaya Mendizabal

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C.BUTLER (J.ROY,C.BUTLER,C.BROWN) ESSENTIAL/PLG

13 17

PRODIGAL Sidewalk Prophets

S.MOSLEY (D.FREY,B.MCDONALD,S.MOSLEY) WORD-CURB

18 9

CAST MY CARES Finding Favour

C.BROWN (D.B.NEESMITH,S.TINNESZ,C.BROWN) GOTEE

17 15

SAME POWER Jeremy Camp

S.MOSLEY (J.CAMP,J.INGRAM) STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG

20 7

THERE IS POWER Lincoln Brewster

L.L.BREWSTER.C.WEDGEWORTH (L.L.BREWSTER.M.L.C.FIELDES) INTEGRITY

21 12

YOU WILL NEVER RUN Rend Collective

G.GILKESON.B.SHIVE (REND COLLECTIVE) CAPITOL CMG

21 7

MY STORY Big Daddy Weave

J.REDMON (M.WEAVER.J.INGRAM) FERVENT/WORD-CURB

23 5

TLL KEEP ON NF Featuring Jeremiah Carlson

T.PROFITT (N.FEUERSTEIN,J.CARLSON,T.PROFITT) CAPITOL CMG

19 17

AIR 1 BREATHE Mat Kearney

S.MOSLEY (M. KEARNEY, S.MOSLEY) AWARE/REPUBLIC/INPOP

25 8

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C.JENKINS,R.EAST (C.JENKINS)

Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago

INSPIRED PEOPLE

INTENTIONAL

T.GREENE.V.NAVEJAR (T.GREENE)

Travis Greene

RCA INSPIRATION

WORTH FIGHTING FOR

A.W.LINDSEY (B.C.WILSON,A.LINES)

Brian Courtney Wilson

MOTOWN GOSPEL

FOR YOUR GLORY

V.MITCHELL (M.BOOKER)

Tasha Cobbs

MOTOWN GOSPEL

YES YOU CAN

A.W.LINDSEY (C.DIXSON.M.L.SAPP)

Marvin Sapp

RCA INSPIRATION

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M. BUTLER (D.W.BLAIR)

Tamela Mann

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M. BOONE, C.CARTER (W.A.REAGAN)

Casey J

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HOW AWESOME IS OUR GOD Israel & New Breed Feat. Yolanda Adams

I.HOUGHTON (LHOUGHTON,N.DIEDERICKS,M.HOUGHTON) RGM NEW BREED/RCA/RCA INSPIRATION

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W.CAMPBELL.P.MORTON (PJ MORTON, J.MCREYNOLDS.W.CAMPBELL) TEHILLAH/LIGHT

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T.MALLOY,L.WILSON (T.MALLOY)

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Tasha Cobbs

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William McDowell

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Top 25 Praise Songs: 2015 Edition

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CASTING CROWNS Glorious Day: Hymns Of Faith

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AMY GRANT Be Still And Know... Hymns & Faith

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ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY Everyday Jesus

KEY OF A/VMAN/TYSCOT/TASEIS

KAREN CLARK-SHEARD Destined To Win

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MARVIN SAPP You Shall Live

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CHARLES JENKINS & FELLOWSHIP CHICAGO Any Given Sunday j

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RICHARD SMALLWOOD WITH VISION Anthology: Live

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ERICA CAMPBELL Help 2.0

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JAPAN MASS CHOIR Powerful: Living In His Body As One (EP)

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UCHEAGU The Glory Experience /Live In Houston

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CASEY J The Truth

MARQUIS BOONE/TYSCOT/TASEIS j

FRED HAMMOND 1 Will Trust

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BRIAN COURTNEY WILSON Worth Fighting For

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Billboard #1 Gospel Hits

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360 MUSIC WORX/KORAH/CAPITOL CMG

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Icon: Gospel Worship

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LEE WILLIAMS AND THE SPIRITUAL QCS Memphis Gospel: Live!

MCG/THE ORCHARD

DR. F. JAMES CLARK AND THE SHALOM CHURCH MASS CHOIR Simply Amazing

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VARIOUSARTISTS GreatGospel Classics: SongsOf Praise & Worship, Vol. 3

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TINA CAMPBELL

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It’S Personal

Tomlin

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Record

Chris Tomlin (above) ties
for the most top 10s in
the history of Billboard's
Hot Christian Songs chart
(which began in 2003) as
"At the Cross (Love Ran
Red)" becomes his 21st
top 10, rising 11-10. The
veteran artist and worship
leader matches the top 10
totals of two other Christian
music mainstays, Casting
Crowns and MercyMe,
the latter of whom moves
5-4 with its 21st top 10,
"Flawless." Casting Crowns
collected its 21st top 10
with "Broken Together,"
which peaked at No. 8 in
April.

With the majority of
its Hot Christian Songs
points coming from radio
play, "Cross" climbs 9-4
as the Greatest Gainer on
Christian Airplay (7.8 million
audience impressions, up
14 percent, according to
Nielsen Music). Parent set
Love Ran Red tallies a 41st
week on the Top Christian
Albums chart, ranking at
No. 12 with a 4 percent gain
to 2,000 sold. It became
Tomlin's fifth No. 1 on
the list upon its debut in
November 2014.

Needtobreathe's
"Brother" (featuring Gavin
DeGraw), which rules
Hot Christian Songs for a
13th week, becomes the
act's longest-running entry
on the chart: 34 weeks.

It passes the total of the
band's sole other No. 1,
"Washed by the Water"

(33 weeks in 2008).

Meanwhile, three
acts debut in the Top
Christian Albums top 10.
Bethel Music tallies its
eighth top 10 in as many
appearances with Without
Words: Synesthesia (No. 2;
5,000 units); Josh Wilson
arrives at a career-high
No. 4 with That Was
Then, This Is Now (4,000),
passing the No. 5 peak of
his last entry, 2013's Carry
Me; and Kristene DiMarco
makes her first visit with
Mighty at No. 7 (4,000).

—Jim Asker

Data for week of 08.22.2015

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STOLE THE SHOW Kygo Featuring Parson James

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SHOW ME LOVE Sam Feldt Featuring Kimberly Anne

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13 10

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AIN’T NOBODY (LOVES ME BETTER) Felix Jaehn Feat. Jasmine Thompson

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16 13

KING Years & Years

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14 25

DON’T LOOK DOWN Martin Garrix Featuring Usher

MARTIN GARRIX.BUSBEE (MARTIN GARRIX, BUSBEE,J.ABRAHART,U. RAYMOND IV) SPINNIN’/RCA

11 21

POWERFUL Major Lazer Feat. Ellie Goulding & Tarrus Riley

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19 10

SUN IS SHINING Axwell & Ingrosso

S.INGROSSO,AXWELL {S.INGR0SS0,AXWELL,V.P0NTARE,5.A.FAKIR) AXWELL/REFUNE/DEF JAM

19 8

SOMETHING BETTER Audien Featuring Lady Antebellum

AUDIEN (N.RATHBUN,P.HANNA,T.BIRD) ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

19 4

HOLDING ON Disclosure Featuring Gregory Porter

DISCLOSURE (G.LAWRENCE,H.LAWRENCE,G.PORTER,J.NAPIER) METHOD/PM R/CAPITOL

22 11

PEANUT BUTTER JELLY Galantls

GALANTIS,SVIDDEN(A.E.BELL,P.L.HURTT,C.KARLSSON,L.EKLOW,M.SORBARA,H.JONBACK,J.KOITZSCH) BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC

18 16

SUGAR Robin Schulz Featuring Francesco Yates

NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC

22 2

SECRETS Tiesto & KSHMR Featuring Vassy

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OLD THING BACK Matoma & The Notorious B.I.G. Feat. Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant

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ROSES The Chainsmokers Featuring ROZES

THE CHAINSMOKERS (A.TAGGART,E.MANCEL) DISRUPTOR

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UNTOUCHABLE Tritonal & Cash Cash

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HEADLIGHTS Robin Schulz Featuring llsey

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SHOTS & SQUATS Vigiland Featuring Tham Sway

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1998 Chet Faker Featuring Banks

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31 1

BURIAL Yogi, Skrillex, Pusha T, Moody Good & Trollphace

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BE TOGETHER Major Lazer Featuring Wild Belle

DIPLO.A.SWANSON (T.W.PENTZ,WILD BELLE,A.SWANSON) MAD DECENT

30 10

1 LOVE IT WHEN YOU CRY (MOXOKI) Steve Aoki & Moxie Raia

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22 19

TONIGHT BELONGS TO U! Jeremih Featuring Flo Rida

M.SCHULTZ (J.P.FELTON,M.SCHULTZ,T.DILLARD) MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM

14 16

SAVE ME Listenbee Featuring Naz Tokio

D.J.LISTENBEE,J.ORVOSH(D.J.LISTENBEE,J.ORVOSH,N.FURLONG,N.TOKIO,B.E.ALEXANDRU,A.L.ALEXANDRU,P.E.ANDREI) LOKAL LEGEND/ULTRA

36 4

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27 20

DESSERT Dawin

DAWIN (D.POLANCO) CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC

33 10

WARM SG Lewis

S.G.LEWIS (S.G.LEWIS,S.F.COOKE) BEAT CLUB/PMR

39 1

ANOTHER YOU Armin van Buuren Featuring Mr. Probz

A.VAN BURREN.B.DO GOEIJ (A.VAN BUUREN.B.DE GOEIJ,D.P.STEHR,N.GEUSEBROEK) ARMIN/ARMADA

21 15

GENERATE Eric Prydz

E.PRYDZ (E.S.PRYDZ,T.R.HAVELOCK) ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

41 4

irSME TryHardNinja

P.LITVIN (TRYHARDNINJA) TRYHARDNINJA

31 20

INDIAN SUMMER Jal Wolf

JAI WOLF (S.SAHA) FOREIGN FAMILY COLLECTIVE

43 1

SWEET ESCAPE Alesso Featuring Sirena

ALESSO (A.LINDBLAD.E.C.OLJELUND) REFUNE/DEF JAM

43 6

DISARM YOU Kaskade Featuring llsey

KASKADE,N.MOTTE,FBJARNSON (R.RADDON,F.BJARNSON,J.COLEMAN,I.JUBER,N.MOTTE) ARKADE/WARNER BROS.

15 2

ALL MY LOVE Major Lazer Feat. Ariana Grande & Michel Montano

DIPLO,BOAZVANDEBEATZ,BLENDER(T.W.PENTZ,E.Y.O'CONNOR,K.M.ORSTED,P.MECKSEPER,B.DEJONG,A.GRANDE,M.MONTANO,G.DOYLE) MADDECENT

15 20

TOGETHER Cazzette Featuring Netwimers

A.BJORKLUND,S.FURRER,A.POURNOURI (A.BJORKLUND,A.POURNOURI,A.B.CAVACO) ICONS/PRMD

23 10

RIVERS Thomas Jack

T.JACK (D.BIERBRODT,G.KRAMER,J.MCMANUS,J.DOHR,T.JACK,T.WOODCOCK) PARLOPHONE/WARNER BROS.

44 2

DEJA VU Giorgio Moroder Featuring Sia

G.MORODER.SMIDI (G.MORODER,S.K.I.FURLER) GIORGIO MORODER/RCA

25 12

BUN UP THE DANCE Dillon Francis & Skrillex

D.H.FRANCIS.SKRILLEX (D.H.FRANCIS) MAD DECENT/COLUMBIA

50 1

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>ANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS™

ARTIST CERTIFICATION
IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

Title

WKS.ON

CHART

||CT MAJOR LAZER

J miljg MAD DECENT

Peace Is The Mission

1 ALINA BARAZ & GALIMATIAS Urban Flora (EP)

J ULTRA

1 ODESZA In Return

1 FOREIGN FAMILY COLLECTIVE/COUNTER

1 LINDSEY STIRLING

■ LINDSEYSTOMP

Shatter Me

1 RATATAT

■ XL

Magnifique

1 ZEDD

J INTERSCOPE/IGA

True Colors

1 SKRILLEX & DIPLO Skrillex And Dipio Present Jack U

J MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG

1 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Born In The Echoes

■ VIRGIN/FREESTYLE DUST/ASTRALWERKS

JAMIE XX

YOUNG TURKS

In Colour

YEARS & YEARS

POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA

Communion

CALVIN HARRIS

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

Motion

1 DAVID GUETTA Listen

■ WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

1 SYLVAN ESSO

■ PARTISAN

Sylvan Esso

1 BASSNECTAR

■ AMORPHOUS

Into The Sun

1 VARIOUS ARTISTS Power MusIC: 55 Smash Hits!: Running Remixes

J POWER MUSIC

1 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’S What 1 Call Party Anthems 2

M UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY

1 GALANTIS

J BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC/AG

Pharmacy

1 TIESTO Club Life, Vol. 4: New York City

J MUSICAL FREEDOM/PM:AM/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC

PURITY RING

4AD

Another Eternity

TYCHO

GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL

Awake

FKA TWIGS

YOUNG TURKS

LPl

PORTER ROBINSON

SAMPLE SIZED/ASTRALWERKS

Worlds

VARIOUS ARTISTS

BIG BEAT/AG

Pop Remixed, Vol. 1

CHET FAKER

DOWNTOWN

Built On Glass

1 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Hits Party Mix: Remixed

J PROVIDENT/CAPITOL CMG/WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS.

MEW

LEAN ON Major Lazer & DJ Snake Feat. MO

MAD DECENT

WHERE ARE U NOW Skrillex & Dipio With Justin Bieber

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC

HEY MAMA David Guetta Feat Nicki Minaj, Behe Rexha & Afrojack

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge

INTERSCOPE

^HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Calvin Harris & Disciples

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

OMEN Disclosure Feat. Sam Smith

METHOD/PM R/CAPITOL

TURN DOWN FOR WHAT DJ Snake & Lil Jon

COLUMBIA

RATHER BE Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne

ATLANTIC/RRP

BEAUTIFUL NOW Zedd Feat. Jon Bellion

INTERSCOPE

RUNAWAY (U&l) Galantis

BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC/RRP

WAKE ME UP! Avicii

PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

FIVE MORE HOURS Deorro & Chris Brown

Bl/PANDA FUNK/PRMD/ULTRA/RCA

GET LOW Dillon Francis & DJ Snake

WEDGEWOOD/DJ SNAKE/MAD DECENT/COLUMBIA

FIRESTONE Kygo Feat. Conrad

ULTRA/RCA

BREAK FREE Ariana Grande Feat. Zedd

REPUBLIC

B**** I’M MADONNA Madonna Feat. Nicki Minaj

LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE

STOLE THE SHOW Kygo Feat. Parson James

ULTRA/RCA

SUMMERTIME SADNESS Lana Del Rey & Cedric Gervais

POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE

106

NEWTHANG RedFoo

PARTY ROCK

HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso Feat Tove Lo

, REFUNE/DEF JAM

SUMMER Calvin Harris

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

BANGARANG Skrillex Feat Sirah

BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/RRP

113

PARTY ROCK ANTHEM LMFAO Feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock

PARTY ROCK/WILL.I.AM/CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

123

100

ANIMALS Martin Garrix

SCH00LB0Y/SPINNIN7SILENT/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC

TITANIUM David Guetta Feat. Sia

WHAT A MUSIC/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

Afrojack
Advances
Into The
Top 10

Afrojack (above) adds
his fourth top 10 on Hot
Dance/Electronic Songs as
"SummerThing!" (featuring
Mike Taylor) heats up
11-8. The song sold 8,000
downloads in the tracking
week, according to Nielsen
Music, while logging
679,000 U.S. streams
(up 15 percent), following
its Aug. 3 video launch.
"SummerThing!" is one of
two concurrent top 10s
for the Dutch DJ, marking
his first such twofer, as
he's featured (with Nicki
Minaj and Bebe Rexha)
on David Quetta's "Hey
Mama," which is No. 3
after spending 11 weeks at
No. 1. "SummerThing!" also
becomes Afrojack's fifth
top 10 on Dance/Electronic
Digital Songs (12-9) and
seventh top 10 on Dance/
Mix Show Airplay (11-10).

Disclosure builds with
"Omen" (featuring Sam
Smith), which reaches
the Hot Dance/Electronic
Dance Songs top five (7-5)
in its second week, adding
top Digital and Streaming
Gainer honors. The
collab sold 27,000 (up 22
percent), while capturing
2.5 million U.S. streams (up
444 percent). That's good
for a No. 6 debut on Dance/
Electronic Streaming
Songs. Disclosure's first hit,
"Latch," also featuring Smith,
spent four weeks at No. 1
on Hot Dance/Electronic
Dance Songs in August
2014.

On Dance Club Songs,
Nathan Sykes scores his
first No. 1 as a soloist with
"Kiss Me Quick" (2-1). As a
member of British boy band
The Wanted, Sykes hit
No. 1 twice, with "Chasing
the Sun" (2012) and "I
Found You" (2013). Remixes
from Jump Smokers,
DiscoTech and Fred Falke,
among others, helped
Sykes plant "Kiss" at the
summit. —Gordon Murray

Data for week of 08.22.2015

BOXSCORE: The top grossing concerts as reported by promoters, venues, managers and booking agents. Boxcsores shouid be submitted to Bob Aiien at bob.aiien@biiiboard.com. DANCE CLUB SONGS: The week’s most popuiar songs piayed
in dance ciubs, compiied from reports from a nationai sampie of dub DJs. See Charts Legend on biiiboard.com/biz for compiete ruies and expianations. 0 2015, Prometheus Giobai Media, LLC and Nieisen Music, Inc. Aii rights reserved.

DANCE CLUB SONGS™

LAST

WEEK

THIS

WEEK

TITLE

IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

Artist

WKS.ON

CHART

KISS ME QUICK

■Hll GLOBAL TALENT

Nathan Sykes

BEAUTIFUL NOW Zedd Feat. Jon Bellion

INTERSCOPE

HOLDING ON Disclosure Feat. Gregory Porter

METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL

FIRE UNDER MY FEET

DEE JAM

Leona Lewis

B**** I’M MADONNA Madonna Feat. Nicki Minaj

LiVE NATiON/iNTERSCOPE

INVINCIBLE

19/RCA

1 «

Kelly Clarkson

HONEY, I’M GOOD. Andy Grammer

S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD

SARA Stereolove Feat. Sara Loera

STEREOLOVE

BETTER AND BETTER Jade Starling Feat. DJ Laszio

TAZMANIA

DEJA VU Giorgio Moroder Feat. Sia

GIORGIO MORODER/RCA

CALI Ralph! Rosario Vs. Ashley J.

ORGANICA/DAUMAN

GENERATE Eric Prydz

ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

SUN IS SHINING Axwell & Ingrosso

AXWELL/REEUNE/DEE JAM

EMERGENCY Icona Pop

RECORD COMPANY TEN/BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC

WHATADAY Fantine Feat. Wyclef Jean & El Cata

EANTINE

SHOW SOME LOVE First Ladies Of Disco

PURPLE ROSE

SOMETHING BETTER Audien Feat. Lady Antebellum

ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

LET IT BE LOVE Jessica Sutta

PREMIER LEAGUE

SUMMERTHING! Afrojack Feat. Mike Taylor

WALL/PM:AM/DEE JAM

CAUTION TAPE Starling Glow

TRAILBLAZE

LIKE 1 CAN Sam Smith

CAPITOL

WHAT MAKES YOUR HEARTBEAT FASTER Barry Harris

TOMMY BOY

MORE THAN A FEELING Breanna Rubio

UPSCALE/DAUMAN

COOL FOR THE SUMMER Demi LovatO

SAEEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC/HOLLYWOOD

LEAN ON Major Lazer&DJ Snake Feat. MO

MAD DECENT

SHOCKWAVES DeGrazio

DAUMAN

ROOFTOP Skylar Stacker

CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

GO The Chemical Brothers

VIRGIN/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

SWEET ESCAPE Alesso Feat. Sirena

REEUNE/DEF JAM

CAN’T FEEL MY FACE The Weeknd

XO/REPUBLIC

RED LIPS Aggro Santos Feat. Andreea Banica

FOD

CHEERLEADER OMI

LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA/COLUMBIA

WEIGHTLESS Angelica Joni

BELIEVE

1 THERE MUST BE LOVE David Morales & Janice Robinson i

J DEE MIX

FUN Pitbull Feat. Chris Brown

MR. 305/P0L0 GROUNDS/RCA

SPARKS Hilary Duff

RCA

WHERE ARE U NOW Skrillex & Dipio With Justin Bieber

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC

ERASE ME Super Square

CARRILLO

0X0 Olivia Somerlyn

OLIVIA SOMERLYN

TONIGHT BELONGS TO U! Jeremih Feat. Flo Rida

MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM

1 LOVE YOU MORE KC And The Sunshine Band

SUNSHINE

STAY YOUNG Fairchild

RADIKAL

THIS FEELING L’Tric

NEON/VIRGIN/CAPITOL

CRAZY Zameer Feat. Mia Martina

BPM

BAD BLOOD Taylor Swift Feat. Kendrick Lamar

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Calvin Harris & Disciples

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

LOVE 3X ZZ Ward

HOLLYWOOD

THEPARTY{THISISH0WWED0I11 Joe Stone Feat Montell Jordan

SPINNIN’

TEACHER Nick Jonas

ISLAND/REPUBLIC

LOVE IS FREE Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique Feat. Maluca

KONICHIWA/CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

CM m

^ o

CO CM

LEGEND

□ Bullets indicate titles with
greatest weekly gains.

Album Charts

0 Recording Industry Assn, of
America (RIAA) certification
for physical shipments &
digital downloads of 500,000
albums (Gold).

A RIAA certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of l million
units (Platinum). Numeral
noted with Platinum symbol
indicates album’s multi-
platinum level.

0 RIAA certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 10 million
units (Diamond). Numeral
noted with Diamond symbol
indicates album’s multi-
platinum level.

O Latin albums certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 30,000 units
(Oro).

A Latin albums certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 60,000 units
(Platino). Numeral noted with
Platinum symbol indicates
album’s multi-platinum level.

Digital Songs Charts

0 RIAA certification for 500,000
paid downloads and on-
demand streams where 100
streams equal 1 download.
(Gold).

A RIAA certification for 1
million paid downloads
and on-demand streams
where 100 streams equal
1 download. (Platinum).
Numeral noted with platinum
symbol indicates song’s
multiplatinum level.

Awards

PS (Pacesetter for largest %
album sales gain)

GG (Greatest Gainer for largest
volume gain)

DG (Digital Sales Gainer)

AG (Airplay Gainer)

SG (Streaming Gainer)

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INCERT GROSSES

GROSS

PER TICKET PRICE(S)

ARTIST

VENUE

DATE

ATTENDANCE

CAPACITY

PROMOTER

$19,474,285

$275/$30

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK

149,942

LIVE NATION GLOBAL TOURING

JULY 18-19, 22-23, 26-27, 30-31

EIGHT SELLOUTS

$8,469,855

$275/$30

TD GARDEN, BOSTON

68,183

LIVE NATION GLOBAL TOURING

JULY 10-11, 14-15

FOUR SELLOUTS

$2,275,000

MUMFORD & SONS, THE MACCABEES, SON LITTLE

$65

CRICKET HILL AT MONTROSE PARK, CHICAGO

35,000

JAM PRODUCTIONS, MHP

JUNE 19

SELLOUT

PRESENTS

$1,313,440

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

BRIDGESTONE ARENA, NASHVILLE

13,495

AEG LIVE

JULY 31

SELLOUT

$1,265,461

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$151/$50.50

ALLSTATE ARENA, ROSEMONT, ILL.

12,331

AEG LIVE

JULY 29

SELLOUT

$1,227,618

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

TARGET CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS

13,858

AEG LIVE

JULY 28

SELLOUT

$1,202,462

MANA

$281/$181/$100/$50

TOYOTA CENTER, HOUSTON

10,173

LIVE NATION

JULY 7

SELLOUT

$1,183,978

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

PALACE OF AUBURN HILLS, AUBURN HILLS, MICH.

12,833

AEG LIVE

JULY 25

SELLOUT

$1,162,682

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

CONSOL ENERGY CENTER, PITTSBURGH

12,497

AEG LIVE

JULY 10

13,035

$1,147,214

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$151/$50.50

TD GARDEN, BOSTON

10,644

AEG LIVE

JULY 8

11,822

$1,137,640

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

PHILIPS ARENA, ATLANTA

11,840

AEG LIVE

AUG. 1

SELLOUT

$1,089,610

CHAYANNE

$180/$40

AMERICAN AIRLINES ARENA, MIAMI

9,333

CARDENAS MARKETING

AUG. 1

10,688

NETWORK

$1,023,956

ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ

(15,940,539 PESOS)

AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY

18,470

OCESA-CIE

$135.54/$19.27

JUNE 26-27

19,191 TWO SHOWS

$975,520

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$151/$50.50

VERIZON CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.

9,126

AEG LIVE

JULY 21

11,119

$973,974

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

VAN ANDEL ARENA, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

9,729

AEG LIVE

JULY 11

10,202

$926,338

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$151/$50.50

WELLS FARGO CENTER, PHILADELPHIA

8,913

AEG LIVE

JULY 22

10,469

$888,554

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

1 WIRELESS CENTER, MOLINE, ILL.

9,499

AEG LIVE

JULY 26

9,824

$871,066

MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS & CAMILA

$200.50/$70.50

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK

6,432

CARDENAS MARKETING

AUG. 1

12,676

NETWORK

$861,471

MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS & CAMILA

$179/$59

ALLSTATE ARENA, ROSEMONT, ILL.

7,579

CARDENAS MARKETING

JULY 25

12,278

NETWORK

$831,443

SAM SMITH

$119/$35

AMERICAN AIRLINES ARENA, MIAMI

11,829

AEG LIVE

JULY 20

SELLOUT

$812,688

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, THOMAS RHETT, FRANKIE BALLARD

$65.25/$30.50

DARIEN LAKE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DARIEN CENTER, N.Y.

21,216

LIVE NATION

AUG. 8

SELLOUT

$802,928

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

TIME WARNER CABLE ARENA, CHARLOTTE

9,003

AEG LIVE

JULY 19

10,386

$765,285

VODAFONE COMEDY FESTIVAL

(€700,560) $30.59

IVEAGH GARDENS, DUBLIN

25,020

AIKEN PROMOTIONS

JULY 23-26

FOUR DAYS

$745,687

NICKI MINAJ, MEEK MILL, RAE SREMMURD, TINASHE, DEJ LOAF

$174.50/$99.50/

TOYOTA CENTER, HOUSTON

10,018

LIVE NATION

$59.50/$29.50

JULY 18

11,498

$742,758

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

BANKERS LIFE FIELDHOUSE, INDIANAPOLIS

8,081

AEG LIVE

JULY 13

9,726

$712,654

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

BON SECOURS WELLNESS ARENA, GREENVILLE, S.C.

7,922

AEG LIVE

JULY 18

8,730

$702,912

JOURNEY

($920,259 CANADIAN)

MILE ONE CENTRE, ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND

11,170

EVENKO, LIVE NATION

$91.28/$41.63

AUG. 2-3

11,526 TWO SHOWS

$702,460

CHRIS TOMLIN, MATT REDMAN, KARI JOBE, LOUIE GIGLIO, MAX LUCADO

$70/$25

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK

13,779

AWAKENING EVENTS

AUG. 8

SELLOUT

$686,888

SHANIA TWAIN, GAVIN DEGRAW

$136/$46

VETERANS MEMORIAL ARENA, JACKSONVILLE

7,905

AEG LIVE

JULY 15

8,649

$684,531

MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS & CAMILA

$159/$59

PEPSI CENTER, DENVER

6,371

CARDENAS MARKETING

JULY 24

8,228

NETWORK

$617,771

IMAGINE DRAGONS, METRIC

$69.50/$49.50/

TOYOTA CENTER, HOUSTON

11,064

LIVE NATION

$34.50/$29.50

JULY 16

11,165

$614,337

BRAD PAISLEY, JUSTIN MOORE, MICKEY GUYTON

$69/$25

SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.

18,455

LIVE NATION

JULY 26

21,000

$608,258

BRAD PAISLEY, JUSTIN MOORE, MICKEY GUYTON

$69/$25

BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER, CUYAHOGA FALLS, OHIO

19,130

LIVE NATION

JULY 17

20,000

$597,449

RASCAL FLATTS, SCOTTY McCREERY, RAELYNN

$69/$25

PNC BANK ARTS CENTER, HOLMDEL, N.J.

15,489

LIVE NATION

JULY 31

16,000

$592,917

$63.75/$28.50

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, THOMAS RHETT, FRANKIE BALLARD

BETHEL WOODS CENTER EOR THE ARTS, BETHEL, N.Y. 15,647 LIVE NATION

AUG. 7 SELLOUT

U2 Wraps
North
American
Tour

U2 makes a stand atop
the Boxscore chart with
ticket sales reported from
sold-out concerts at arenas
in New York and Boston,
the final two cities on the
North American leg of the
iconic band's Innocence &
Experience Tour.

Overall sales from the
tour total $76.1 million
from 36 concerts since the
May 14 launch in Vancouver,
and 650,582 fans have
seen the group at 10 arenas
during the North American
trek that wrapped at
the end of July. A 10-city
European leg begins
Sept. 4.

The band's sold-out
engagement at Madison
Square Garden leads
the new Boxscore tally
with 149,942 tickets sold
at eight performances
between July 18 and 31.

With $19.4 million in sales,
the New York run set an
all-time gross record for U2
at a U.S. venue, topping a
$16.1 million gross earned
in September 2009 from
two shows at Giants
Stadium in East Rutherford,
N.J., during the 360° Tour.

Following in the second
slot on the chart is the
group's Boston stint that
generated $8.4 million in
box-office sales from sold-
out performances on July 10,
11, 14 and 15 at TD Garden.
Among all the North
American venues during
the tour's summer span, the
Boston arena logged the
fourth-highest gross behind
MSG, Chicago's United
Center ($11.3 million) and
The Forum in Inglewood,
Calif. ($9.8 million).

—Bob Allen

Data for week of 08.22.2015

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Stockman of Boyz
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REWINDING

THE

CHARTS

23 Years Ago

BOYZ II MEN
BEGANAN0.1
STREAK
WITH ‘END’

The song was the first in a
series of record-breaking
singles for the Philly quartet

BOYZ II MEN ALREADY HAD LANDED
singles at Nos. 3 and 2 on the Billboard Hot
100 — respectively, “Motownphilly” and
the a cappella ballad “It’s So Hard to Say
Goodbye” from their 1991 debut album,
Cooleyhighharmony — when the group’s
next hit, “End of the Road,” arrived in June
1992. Included on the movie soundtrack to
Boomerang, which starred Eddie Murphy,
the elegiac song’s tight harmonies gave the
Philadelphia quartet — Michael McCary,
then 20; Nathan Morris, 21; Wanya Morris,
18; and Shawn Stockman, 19 — more than
its first No. 1 single (on Aug. 15, 1992). The
song set a record for what was then the
longest run atop the Hot 100, at 13 weeks.

Although Whitney Houston surpassed
the group in 1993 when “I Will Always
Love You” pushed the record to 14 weeks.

“End of the Road” was just the beginning
of Boyz II Men’s run of Hot 100 chart-
toppers. The act would rack up four more
by the end of 1997, and reclaim its record
from Houston when the group’s 1995
collaboration with Mariah Carey, “One
Sweet Day,” spent 16 weeks atop the chart.
The achievement still stands today. In the
process, Boyz II Men’s “doo-wop hip-hop”
sound came to define ’90s pop and paved
the way for similar acts such as Color Me
Badd, All-4-One and Shai.

Boyz II Men became a trio when McCary
left in 2003 and continues to tour. It last
appeared on the Hot 100 in 2001, and
2014’s Collide reached the top 40 of the
Billboard 200, raising the act’s to-date U.S.
album sales to 25 million copies, according
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